Summary:
The Gentry School District is home to one middle school, Gentry Middle School, which serves 425 students in grades 6 through 8 in a community where over half of the students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Gentry Middle School shows a remarkable strength in science and advanced math, but faces challenges in literacy. The school’s most standout feature is its Algebra I program, where 81.5% of tested students are proficient—more than double the state average of 36.9%. This suggests a strong focus on accelerating top math students. Additionally, the school outperforms the state in science (48.1% vs. 44.0%), particularly in 8th grade where 55.7% of students are proficient. However, the school lags behind state averages in English Language Arts (36.1% vs. 39.4%) and mathematics (37.5% vs. 44.1%). A concerning trend is that ELA proficiency declines as students get older, dropping from 42.2% in 6th grade to just 30.9% in 8th grade, indicating a need for stronger literacy support in later grades.
Despite serving a population with significant economic need (55.06% free/reduced lunch rate), the school has shown strong improvement. From the 2024-2025 to 2025-2026 school year, overall math proficiency jumped by 9.1 percentage points and ELA by 7.7 points. This upward trajectory helped the school rise from a 2-star to a 3-star state ranking, now placing in the 52nd percentile. With a student-teacher ratio of 13.4:1 and per-student spending of $11,439, the school appears to be making effective use of its resources to drive academic gains, even as it works to close the gap in core subjects.
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