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Overlook Middle School
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MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 10 points since 2016, while math scores are down about 17 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Overlook Middle School
Set in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, Overlook Middle School is a mid-sized intermediate school, one of the schools within Ashburnham-Westminster. It instructs 576 students across grades 6 through 8.
Overlook Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by Ashburnham-Westminster, a district that enrolls 2,255 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Overlook Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Beyond that, the school records 8% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Overlook Middle School shows 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.5:1, putting Overlook Middle School higher than the state norm the norm.
Across the wider county, census data for Worcester County shows the typical household earns roughly $95,939 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Worcester County's 257 public schools (combined enrollment of about 121,490 students), Overlook Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Oakmont Regional High School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
Overlook Middle School operates from a rural location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 573 students in 2018 compared to 576 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 93% to 86% over that span.
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