Summary:
Middle-school families in Maroa Forsyth CUSD 2 have one listed option: Maroa-Forsyth Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 271 students. In 2025–2026, the school was above the state proficiency rate in ELA, math, and grade 8 science, though its math result was below the district figure. ELA is its clearest strength: 82% proficient, 26 percentage points above the state and 7 points above the district.
There are no other listed schools to compare as top or bottom performers, so the most useful comparisons are with district and state results. Math was 50% proficient—10 points above the state but 5 points below the district—while grade 8 science was 62%, 10 points above the state and equal to the district. The school’s state advantage also appears across every reported grade in ELA and math. However, math results vary by grade: grade 7 was 57% proficient compared with 42% in grade 8, a 15-point difference. ELA results were more consistent, ranging from 82% to 83% across grades.
Results improved in all three reported subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and the school’s lead over the state grew: ELA rose from 75% to 82%, math from 43% to 50%, and grade 8 science from 43% to 62%. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking moved down from 80 in 2023–2024 to 77 in 2025–2026, even as the reported test scores rose; its listed rank was 254 of 1,126 in the latest year. Chronic absenteeism was 11% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 13% and the state’s 24%. Context figures include a student-teacher ratio of 18.2 in 2024–2025 and 31% of students free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Because the list has only one school, it cannot show how school characteristics or results compare among local schools.
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