Summary:
Gillespie CUSD 7 has one middle school, Gillespie Middle School, serving grades 6–8, with 244 students. Its latest results show a mixed picture: in 2025–2026, all-grades math proficiency was 42% versus 40% statewide, and eighth-grade science was 58% versus 52%; all-grades ELA was 49%, 8 points below the state’s 56%. The most important finding is that performance depends on the subject: math and eighth-grade science were ahead of the state, while ELA was behind.
Gillespie stands out for strong eighth-grade math and weaker seventh-grade ELA, rather than for leading or trailing another local school. Eighth-grade math proficiency was 50%, 15 points above the state’s 35%, while seventh-grade ELA was 38%, 20 points below the state’s 58%. Results also vary across other grades: ELA ranged from 38% to 54%, and math from 31% to 50%. Because the list contains just one school, it cannot identify a top or bottom school in the area.
Test results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: all-grades ELA rose from 41% to 49%, and math from 37% to 42%; eighth-grade science rose from 50% to 58%. Over the same period, SchoolDigger’s ranking moved from the 57th percentile to the 43rd percentile, and its rating changed from 3 stars to 2 stars, a different trend from the recent score gains. As context, the school had a 13.6 student-teacher ratio and 63% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 21% in 2025–2026, close to the district’s 21% and below the state’s 24%.
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