Summary:
ZIP code 02779 contains just one public middle school — Berkley Middle School in Berkley, Massachusetts — which serves grades 5–8 and enrolls 374 students, so families here have a single option to evaluate, with the most useful comparisons being against the Berkley district and the state.
The school's clear strengths are in Science, Civics, and 8th grade. All-grade Science is 52.41% proficient versus 40.98% statewide, and 8th-grade Science reaches 65.06% — about 26 points above the state's 38.93%. 8th-grade Civics is 56.63% versus 39.77% state, and it climbed 8.18 points from the prior year. 8th-grade ELA (59.04% vs. 41.70%) and 6th-grade Math (61.32% vs. 42.59%) are also well above state. In rankings, the school sits at 128th out of 478 statewide, the 73rd percentile with 4 stars, holding steady in the upper quartile across three years, while the district snapshot shows the 64th percentile and 3 stars.
The main red flag is 7th-grade Math at 21.98% proficient against a state figure of 37.48% — the lowest result in the 2025–2026 data, and a striking 39.34 points below the school's own 6th-grade Math score. Fifth grade trails the state in every subject tested (ELA by 2.01 points, Math by 8.17, Science by 3.31), and all-grade Science slipped 6.56 points year over year. Overall Math essentially matches the state at 41.05%, which hides that uneven split. Two caveats matter: the free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported, so economic context cannot be assessed, and per-student spending of $12,426 dates from 2020–2021. The student-teacher ratio of 13.8 is descriptive only, with no comparator provided. In short, this is a solidly above-average school, strongest in the upper grades and in Science and Civics, with 7th-grade Math as the priority.
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