Summary
Located in Cuba, Illinois, Cuba Middle School serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 80 students. Its clearest academic strength is improving English language arts (ELA), but its most important concern is math: in 2025–2026, 17% of students were proficient in math, the lowest result among the nine nearby schools.
ELA is stronger than math, though both subjects trail district, state and nearby-school results. In 2025–2026, 49% were proficient in ELA, compared with 56% statewide and 56% in CUSD 3 Fulton County; math proficiency was 17%, versus 40% statewide and 34% in the district. Across nearby schools, the averages were 56% in ELA and 33% in math, putting Cuba about 6 points below the ELA average and 16 below the math average. Attendance is a notable bright spot: chronic absenteeism was 7%, compared with 11% in the district, 24% statewide and a 17% nearby-school average. Only Spoon River Valley Junior High School had a lower rate.
Results improved in the latest year: ELA proficiency rose 12 points, from 38% to 49%, and math rose 6 points, from 12% to 17%. Even so, SchoolDigger’s statewide standing was 29th percentile, rank 803 of 1,126, with one star—just above its 28th-percentile standing in 2024–2025 and well below 48 in 2022–2023. SchoolDigger’s 2024–2025 group rankings showed a notable difference: the Female Students measure was at the 55th percentile, compared with 28 overall, while the Male Students measure was at 12. These rankings describe the school’s standing for each group, not comparisons among individual students. In 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratio was 10.0, below the nearby average of 11.0; 51% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, close to the nearby average of 50%. Results and rankings may be sensitive to small enrollment, and nearby all-grades comparisons include some schools that also serve grade 5.
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