Gates Middle School

Gates Middle School is a reasonably sized 6-8 campus in Scituate, Massachusetts, operated by Scituate. The school hosts 639 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within Scituate, which oversees 6 schools and 2,744 students, Gates Middle School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Gates Middle School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). The remainder breaks down as 3% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.5:1, putting Gates Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Plymouth County indicate median household earnings sit near $114,201, 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 Gates Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Scituate High School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gates Middle School.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Gates Middle School's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 721 (now 639). Class-load math has tightened: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Gates Middle School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.