Summary:
The middle-school list for Salt Fork Community Unit District 512 contains one school: Salt Fork Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 202 students. With only one school in the list, families can compare its results with district and state figures, but not with other area middle schools. The main academic concern is mathematics and science: in 2025–2026, proficiency was 22% in all-grades mathematics and 36% in grade 8 science, respectively 17 and 16 percentage points below state results.
There is no meaningful highest- or lowest-performing school distinction here: Salt Fork is the only school listed. Its results vary by subject: all-grades ELA was virtually level with the state, at 57% compared with 56%, while mathematics was 22% compared with 40% statewide. Grade-level ELA results were below state results in each grade: by 2 points in grade 6, 6 points in grade 7, and 3 points in grade 8. Eighth-grade science was 36%, versus 52% statewide. One favorable measure is chronic absenteeism: Salt Fork’s 12% rate was below the state’s 24%; it was also slightly below the district rate (11.8% versus 12.3%).
Scores increased in all three reported subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, though progress relative to the state differed. Mathematics rose 6 points and grade 8 science 14 points, narrowing their state gaps by 5 and 7 points. ELA rose 3 points, but the state’s increase was slightly larger, so Salt Fork’s small advantage narrowed. SchoolDigger gave the school 2 stars in each of the three years shown; its statewide percentile was 41 in 2024–2025 and 32 in 2025–2026. For context, 55.5% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio was 16.6:1 that year. These figures describe the school, but the data do not establish that they explain its results.
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