Summary:
The middle-school list for Bradley School District 61 contains one school, Bradley Central Middle School, serving grades 6–8 in Bradley, with 364 students. Its 2025–26 ELA proficiency was 57%, close to the state’s 56%, while chronic absenteeism was 20%, below the district’s 23% and the state’s 24%. The most important finding is that math is the clearest challenge: 15% of students were proficient, 25 percentage points below the state’s 40%.
Because there is only one school, there is no meaningful school-to-school top or bottom comparison. Within the school, ELA is the strongest current subject relative to the state: its 57% result was about 1 percentage point higher. Grade-level results vary, however: grade 6 ELA was 66%, 8 points above the state, while grade 7 was 45%, 13 points below, and grade 8 was 59%, 5 points below. Grade 8 science was 44%, 8 points below the state’s 52%. These results show why the all-grades ELA figure does not tell the whole story, and why math deserves particular attention.
Scores rose in all three reported subject comparisons from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA increased 4 percentage points, math 1 point, and grade 8 science 19 points, from 26% to 44%. Science had the largest gain, and its gap with the state narrowed by 12 points, though the latest result remained below the state. SchoolDigger’s rank-history percentile fell from 45 in 2023–24 to 30 in 2025–26, and its rating changed from 2 stars to 1; its district listing gives a rank of 627 of 738 and the 15th percentile. Context measures include a 9.3:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–25 and 66% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. With only one school in the list, these figures cannot show how the school compares with similar schools.
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