Furnace Brook Middle

Furnace Brook Middle, a middle-of-the-pack middle school in Marshfield, Massachusetts, overseen by Marshfield, enrolls 799 students, covering grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Massachusetts's public schools average about 547 students each, so Furnace Brook Middle sits 46% above that benchmark.

Marshfield comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,637 students; Furnace Brook Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Furnace Brook Middle lists that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.5:1, putting Furnace Brook Middle tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Plymouth County indicate the typical household earns roughly $114,201 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Plymouth County runs 141 public schools (combined enrollment of about 76,427 students), of which Furnace Brook Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Marshfield High, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Furnace Brook Middle's enrollment has declined 18% since 2018, when it stood at 970 (now 799). The White share of enrollment edged down from 95% to 90% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.