Ipswich Middle School

Ipswich Middle School is one of the small junior highs in Ipswich, Massachusetts, operated by Ipswich, with 377 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 31% below the state mean of about 547.

Ipswich comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,563 students; Ipswich Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Ipswich Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest reads as 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.5:1 average.

Around the school, census data for Essex County shows the typical household earns roughly $101,883 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Ipswich Middle School is one of 221 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 113,427 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ipswich High, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ipswich Middle School has edged down 14%, going from 440 students in 2018 to 377 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 82% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 today.

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