Summary:
Zip code 31647 is home to just one middle school, Cook County Middle School, which serves grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 640 students in the Cook County district.
Cook County Middle School has earned a consistent 3-star rating for three straight years, ranking in the 57th to 60th percentile statewide. Its standout strength is Algebra I: in 2025–2026, 96.6% of students scored proficient or above—nearly double the state average of 48.1%—and the prior year saw a perfect 100% proficiency rate. General math is also solid, with 8th grade math (49.8% proficient) and 6th grade math (41.8%) both beating state averages, while 8th grade science (33.8%) also outperformed the state (29.7%). The school maintains a favorable 12.8:1 student-to-teacher ratio and a chronic absenteeism rate of 15.0%, which is below both the district (17.1%) and state (17.7%) figures.
Areas for improvement are clear. Social Studies is a persistent weakness, with only 30.8% of 8th graders proficient in 2025–2026—9.4 points below the state—and it also trailed the prior year. English Language Arts (ELA) data is only available for 2024–2025, when the school lagged the state in all grades, most notably 7th grade (28.9% vs. 40.7%). Note that current-year ELA scores were not released and will arrive in December; this absence should not be read as a decline. Year-over-year math trends are mixed: 6th grade improved by 6.4 points, but 7th and 8th grades slipped slightly. Overall, this is a mid-tier school with an exceptional advanced math program, solid science and general math, but meaningful gaps in Social Studies and, based on available data, ELA.
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