Summary:
ZIP code 03878, serving Somersworth, New Hampshire, has one middle school for grades 6–8: Somersworth Middle School, with 286 students. The school is part of the Somersworth School District and reports a 9.6-to-1 student-teacher ratio. About 38% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, providing important context about the community the school serves. Since it is the only middle school in the ZIP code, families do not have multiple local middle schools to compare.
The school’s strongest area is reading. In 2025–2026, 45% of students were proficient in reading, compared with 40% in the district and 55% statewide. Reading results are particularly encouraging in grades 7 and 8: 52% of seventh graders and 49% of eighth graders were proficient, coming within 5 and 2 percentage points of state results. Science performance was moderate, with 27% proficiency, slightly above the district’s 25% but below the state’s 38%. Science also improved by 6 percentage points from the prior year, making it the school’s most positive recent trend.
Mathematics is the biggest concern for families to consider. Only 19% of students were proficient overall, compared with 20% in the district and 44% statewide. Results were weakest in sixth grade at 14%, rising only modestly to 21% in seventh grade and 22% in eighth grade. Overall, the school performs very similarly to the district, suggesting that many challenges are shared across Somersworth rather than unique to this building. The school’s statewide ranking remains low, at the 17th percentile with one star, although its stronger upper-grade reading results offer a clear academic bright spot. Parents may want to ask about sixth-grade transition supports, math intervention, curriculum alignment, and how the school is building on recent science gains.
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