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Albert F Ford Middle School
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MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2016, while math scores are down about 4 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Albert F Ford Middle School
Albert F Ford Middle School operates as a modestly sized intermediate school in Acushnet, Massachusetts, overseen by Acushnet. Current enrollment sits at 403 students spanning grades 5 through 8. That puts it 26% below the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 547 students.
Acushnet runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 920 students. Albert F Ford Middle School is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Albert F Ford Middle School reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.
In the broader community, census data for Bristol County shows median household income runs about $85,625, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bristol County runs 142 public schools (combined enrollment of about 80,897 students), of which Albert F Ford Middle School is one.
Acushnet Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Albert F Ford Middle School.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 413 students in 2018 compared to 403 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 96% to 89% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.
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