Georgetown Middle School
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Test scores
MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 26 points since 2016, while math scores are down about 30 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Georgetown Middle School
Set in Georgetown, Massachusetts, Georgetown Middle School is a micro-enrollment junior high, one of the schools within Georgetown. It serves 187 students across grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Massachusetts's public schools average about 547 students each, so Georgetown Middle School sits 66% leaner than that benchmark.
Georgetown comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,197 students; Georgetown Middle School is among them.
Demographically, Georgetown Middle School logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Georgetown Middle School has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. The state averages about 11.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.
Across the wider county, census data for Essex County shows median household income runs about $101,883, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Essex County's 221 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,427 students), Georgetown Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Georgetown High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Georgetown Middle School.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 19%: 230 students in 2018 compared to 187 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 95% to 90% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.
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