Burncoat Middle School

The public middle school Burncoat Middle School is located in Worcester, Massachusetts. Grades offered run from 7 through 8, with 720 students enrolled. The average among middle schools in Massachusetts is roughly 547 students; this school is 32% bigger than that.

Worcester is the district for Burncoat Middle School. It has 47 schools and 24,778 students.

Hispanic students form the largest group at Burncoat Middle School, 46% of enrollment. Next come 25% White, 19% Black, 6% Asian, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 14% Hispanic among all Worcester County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Burncoat Middle School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 69%.

The school employs the equivalent of 53.2 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 13.6:1. The average ratio among middle schools in Massachusetts is 11.5:1, lower than at this school.

County data help place the school in context: in Worcester County, median household income is about $95,939, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Burncoat Middle School is among the 257 public schools in Worcester County.

The next-closest public school is Burncoat Senior High, about 0.1 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

NCES describes the area around Burncoat Middle School as City: Mid-size, meaning inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Enrollment was 688 in 2020-21 and 720 in 2024-25, a gain of 32 students.

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