Summary:
The three schools in Bement CUSD 5 serve 291 students across prekindergarten through 12th grade. The clearest difference is between the schools: Bement Middle School has the strongest current academic results, while Bement Elementary School is below state results on its all-grades reading and math measures. For families comparing the schools, Middle’s results—especially in grades 6 and 7—are the district’s clearest academic strength.
Bement Middle School leads the district: in 2025–26, 74% of students were proficient in all-grades ELA and 47% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide. Its seventh-grade results were especially strong: 87% in ELA and 67% in math, exceeding state results by 29 and 27 percentage points. Bement Elementary School was below state results in all-grades ELA (45% versus 56%) and math (36% versus 40%), though its fourth-grade ELA was 59%, above the 56% state result. Bement High School was near state results in 11th-grade ACT ELA and science, and above the state in 10th-grade PreACT science; its 9th-grade PreACT ELA was 14 points below.
Recent changes differ by school. Elementary’s all-grades ELA fell 8 percentage points and math fell 10 from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while Middle’s ELA rose 6 points and math 12. High’s 11th-grade ACT ELA and science each dropped 25 points year over year, from 75% to 50%. SchoolDigger ranked Middle at the 73rd percentile in 2025–26, up from the 68th percentile in each of the prior two years; High ranked at the 58th percentile, down from the 78th. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 66% at Elementary, 33% at Middle, and 41% at High; student-teacher ratios ranged from 10.0 at High to 11.8 at Middle. High also had higher chronic absenteeism in 2025–26 (21%) than Elementary (9%) or Middle (10%). Because enrollments are small, results may shift from year to year with the performance of a relatively small number of students.
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