Summary:
Reed Custer CUSD 255U has one middle school, Reed-Custer Middle School, serving grades 6–8, with 306 students. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 10%, below the district’s 14% and the state’s 24%. The clearest strength is English language arts (ELA): the school’s all-grades proficiency rate was 74%, compared with 56% statewide.
Because Reed-Custer Middle School is the only school in this list, it is technically both the highest- and lowest-performing school in the group; there is no meaningful school-to-school comparison. Against state results, ELA stands out most: the school was ahead by 18 percentage points overall, including a 20-point lead in grade 7. Math was close to the state overall, at 40% compared with 40%, or about 1 point higher; however, grade 8 math was 29% at the school versus 35% statewide, while grades 6 and 7 were each about 7 points above the state. Eighth-grade science proficiency was 59%, about 7 points above the state’s 52%.
Recent changes are mixed, rather than uniformly upward relative to the state. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose from 70% to 74%, widening the school’s state advantage by about 1 point; math rose from 37% to 40%, improving its state-relative position by about 2 points. Eighth-grade science increased from 58% to 59%, but its state advantage narrowed by about 5 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking fell from 79 in 2023–2024 to 65 in 2025–2026, and its rating moved from 4 stars to 3. Context figures include a student-teacher ratio of 10.9:1 in 2024–2025 and 43% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025. Since the list includes one school, it cannot show how results vary among schools in the area.
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