Summary:
Girard has two listed schools in North Mac CUSD 34: North Mac Middle School, serving grades 6–8, and North Mac Intermediate, serving grades 3–5; no high school is listed. In 2025–2026, both schools were below the state in all-grades ELA and math proficiency: Middle was at 40% in ELA and 16% in math, while Intermediate was at 38% and 26%, compared with state results of 56% and 40%. The most important takeaway is that both schools trail state proficiency in both subjects, with the average gap larger in math (19 points) than in ELA (17 points).
Neither school stands out as the leader in both subjects: Middle’s ELA result is 2 points higher than Intermediate’s, while Intermediate’s math result is 10 points higher than Middle’s. Grade-level results show a particularly wide spread in ELA: Middle grade 6 was 4 points below the state, at 55% versus 59%, while Middle grade 7 was 29 points below, at 28% versus 58%. Schoolwide averages can hide these differences. Because the schools serve different grades, their all-grades scores and science results are not direct like-for-like comparisons.
ELA results fell at both schools from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: Middle declined 6 points, from 46% to 40%, and Intermediate declined 6 points, from 44% to 38%, while the state result rose 3 points. Math moved in different directions: Middle improved 3 points, but Intermediate fell 4 points. SchoolDigger’s rankings also declined over the three years shown: Middle went from the 38th to the 12th percentile, and Intermediate from the 56th to the 17th; both now have one star. The schools have similar 2024–2025 student-teacher ratios—11.6 at Middle and 12.1 at Intermediate—while the free/reduced lunch eligible measure that year was 54% and 63%, respectively. These are contextual differences, not explanations for test results.
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