Memorial Middle School

A medium-sized middle school in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Memorial Middle School is part of Fitchburg. Classes run from 6 through 8, and the school has 601 students.

Memorial Middle School is one school in an 8-school district, Fitchburg, which enrolls 5,234 students.

At Memorial Middle School, Hispanic students make up 56% of the student body. The next largest groups are 27% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Black, and 4% Asian. The school's Hispanic share is 42 points above the 14% share among Worcester County residents. The school's diversity index is 61%, meaning two students picked at random have a 61% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

The school employs the equivalent of 46 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 13.1:1. That is higher than the 11.5:1 average for middle schools in Massachusetts.

allk12 grades Memorial Middle School a C. The grade compares the school only with Massachusetts public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.

County data help place the school in context: in Worcester County, the median household income is $95,939, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Worcester County is home to 257 public schools and about 121,490 public school students.

South Street Early Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles away. The five-mile area around Memorial Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools.

In the federal locale system, Memorial Middle School is coded Suburb: Mid-size, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Over 4 years, Memorial Middle School's enrollment dropped 8%, to 601.

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