Summary:
Zip code 03848 has one middle school, Sanborn Regional Middle School, serving grades 6–8 in the Sanborn Regional School District. The school enrolls about 251 students and has a relatively low 10.2-to-1 student-teacher ratio, which may support smaller groups and more individual attention.
Sanborn Regional Middle School showed meaningful improvement in the latest year. Its statewide ranking rose from 79th to 56th, and its percentile improved from the 40th to the 59th percentile. Mathematics proficiency increased from 35% to 46%, reading rose from 52% to 54%, and science improved from 35% to 42%. In the latest results, the school was slightly above the state in mathematics, about equal to the state in reading, and above the state in science. Science is the clearest strength: 42% of students were proficient, compared with 37% in the district and 38% statewide.
Results vary considerably by grade, so overall averages do not tell the complete story. Mathematics was strongest in grades 6 and 7, at 49% and 51% proficiency, but fell to 37% in grade 8. Reading was strongest in grade 8, at 64%, while grade 7 was weaker at 46%, 11 points below the state average. Eighth-grade science reached 42%, matching the district and exceeding the state by five points. For parents, the main takeaway is that Sanborn Regional Middle School is improving and performs around or somewhat above statewide levels, with particular momentum in math and science. The most important areas to monitor are eighth-grade math and seventh-grade reading.
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