Middle Schools in Cusd 4

The middle-school list for Cusd 4 contains one school, Unity Middle School, serving grades 5–8 and enrolling 200 students; state results are the available benchmark because there are no local peer schools to compare. In 2025–2026, Unity’s clearest strengths were English language arts (ELA) and science: all-grades ELA proficiency was 71%, compared with 56% statewide, and science was 58% versus 48% in grade 5 and 77% versus 52% in grade 8. The most important takeaway is that Unity’s results were notably stronger than the state in ELA and science, while overall math was close to the state.

There is no separate highest- or lowest-performing school among local peers: Unity is the only school in the list, so its results can be compared with the state rather than with another area school. Its all-grades math result was 40%, just 1 percentage point above the state. Results varied by grade: grade 5 math was 25 points above the state, while grade 6 math was 7 points below; grade 6 ELA was also 1 point below the state. In ELA, Unity was 15 points above the state overall, including 22 points above in grade 7 and 20 points above in grade 8. These differences show why the overall figures do not tell the full story across grades.

Results changed in different ways over time. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grades ELA rose 2 points, but Unity’s lead over the state narrowed by 1 point; math fell 1 point, and its lead narrowed by 2 points. Science rose sharply: grade 5 increased 21 points and grade 8 increased 32 points, moving from below the state to 10 and 25 points above it, respectively. SchoolDigger rated Unity 3 stars in 2023–2024, 4 stars in 2024–2025, and 3 stars in 2025–2026; its latest ranking was 372nd of 1,126 schools, at the 67th percentile. Other context includes a student-teacher ratio of 12.6 in 2024–2025 and 53% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch in that school year; chronic absenteeism was 14% in 2025–2026, compared with 14% districtwide and 24% statewide.