Bourne Middle School

The public middle school Bourne Middle School is located in Bourne, Massachusetts. The school serves grades 6 through 8. Enrollment is 394 students. It has 28% fewer students than the average for middle schools in Massachusetts (about 547).

The district, Bourne, has 1,519 students enrolled across 4 schools.

By race and ethnicity, Bourne Middle School is 85% White. The remaining shares are 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, and 2% Asian. In Barnstable County overall, the White share is about 86%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 27, compared with 70 nationally.

Its staff includes 44.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 8.9 students per teacher. The gap from the 11.5:1 average for middle schools in Massachusetts is 2.6 students per teacher.

Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Barnstable County show that the median household earns about $95,241 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 48%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Barnstable County has 49 public schools with about 22,212 students, including Bourne Middle School.

Bourne High School is about 0.2 miles from Bourne Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Bourne Middle School holds 4 other public schools.

Bourne Middle School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.

From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 460 to 394, a 14% drop. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 10.9:1 to 8.9:1.

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