Amesbury Middle

Amesbury Middle is a middle school in Amesbury, Massachusetts, reachable at (978) 388-0515. A federal count lists 364 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in Massachusetts) has about 547 students.

Amesbury Middle is part of Amesbury, where 5 schools serve 1,793 students.

Amesbury Middle's enrollment is 78% White. Other groups include 14% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. By comparison, Essex County residents are about 68% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Amesbury Middle belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 37%.

Amesbury Middle operates with 39.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 9.2:1. That ratio is under the 11.5:1 average for middle schools in Massachusetts.

Amesbury Middle is located in Essex County, where median household income is about $101,883, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Amesbury Middle is one of 221 public schools in Essex County, which together enroll about 113,427 students.

Nearest public school: Amesbury Innovation High School, about 0.6 miles away. The five-mile area around Amesbury Middle holds at least 8 other public schools.

On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.

Federal data put enrollment at 625 in 2020-21 and 364 in 2024-25; the school may have served different grades in those years. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 11.0:1 to 9.2:1.

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