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Harold L Qualters Middle
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MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 1 points since 2016, while math scores are down about 10 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Harold L Qualters Middle
Located at 240 East Street, in Mansfield, Massachusetts, Harold L Qualters Middle is a mid-tier middle-grades school that works with 750 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Mansfield. Compared to the state average of about 547 students per school, that is 37% bigger than typical.
Across the 5 schools in Mansfield (3,283 students total), Harold L Qualters Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Harold L Qualters Middle records that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 9% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. Compared to Bristol County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, On paper, Harold L Qualters Middle has 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. The state averages around 11.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bristol County indicate median household earnings sit near $85,625, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Bristol County runs 142 public schools (combined enrollment of about 80,897 students), of which Harold L Qualters Middle is one.
Nearest neighbor: Mansfield High, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harold L Qualters Middle.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Harold L Qualters Middle's enrollment has edged down 20% since 2018, when it stood at 941 (now 750). White enrollment moved from 83% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.
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