Middle · Massachusetts
Benjamin Friedman Middle
Free meals for allBenjamin Friedman Middle, a public middle school in Taunton, Massachusetts: grades 5–7, 701 students, 15.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Taunton.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 701
- Teachers (FTE)
- 45.5
- Students per teacher
- 15.4
- Grades
- 5–7
- Middle
More students per teacher than 96% of middle schools in Massachusetts
Median 11.5 · 303 schools compared
More students per teacher than 57% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 77% of middle schools in Massachusetts
Median 531 · 303 schools compared
Larger than 69% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Massachusetts's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Massachusetts: 42%40%proficient
+1.4 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 53% of middle schools in Massachusetts
Median 42% · 303 middle schools compared
666 students tested, grades 3–8 · NextGen MCAS; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Massachusetts: 41%23%proficient
+3.5 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 76% of middle schools in Massachusetts
Median 38% · 303 middle schools compared
671 students tested, grades 3–8 · NextGen MCAS; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 5–7
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Taunton
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Taunton.
Location
- Address
- 500 Norton Avenue, Taunton, MA 02780
- Phone
- (508)821-1493
- City or town
- Taunton
- County
- Bristol County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
John F Parker MiddleFree meals for all | 5–7 | 517 | 14.9 | 22% | 23% |
Norton MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 527 | 12.7 | 42% | 35% |
Raynham Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 5–8 | 710 | 15.9 | 36% | 36% |
Berkley Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 5–8 | 374 | 13.9 | 48% | 43% |
| 5–8 | 355 | 14.5 | 51% | 42% | |
Joseph H MartinFree meals for all | 5–7 | 647 | 14.1 | 29% | 29% |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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