Summary:
Zip code 62448 has one middle school, Jasper County Junior High, serving grades 7–8 and 176 students, so its results represent the entire area. In 2025–2026, 26% of students were proficient in math, compared with 40% statewide, while 52% were proficient in ELA, compared with 56% statewide; eighth-grade science proficiency was 44%, versus 52% statewide. The most important concern is eighth-grade math: 16% were proficient, 19 percentage points below the state.
Because there is only one school, there is no local top-to-bottom comparison; the clearest differences are between subjects and grades at Jasper County Junior High. Eighth-grade ELA stands out positively, with 63% proficient, equal to the state. By contrast, seventh-grade ELA was 41%, 17 points below the state’s 58%. Math shows an even sharper grade split: 36% of seventh graders were proficient, 4 points below the state, compared with 16% of eighth graders, 19 points below. Eighth-grade math was also 21 points lower than seventh-grade math at the school.
All-grades ELA and math improved year over year, but science did not. ELA rose 10 points, from 42% to 52%, narrowing its gap with the state from 11 points to 5; math rose 9 points, from 17% to 26%, narrowing its gap from 22 points to 14. Eighth-grade science slipped 1 point to 44% while the state rose 7 points to 52%, widening the school’s shortfall to 8 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking fell from the 44th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 28th percentile in 2025–2026, a decline of 16 percentile points. Context measures include a student-teacher ratio of 18.8 in 2024–2025 and 46% free/reduced lunch eligible that year; chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 18%, compared with 17% in the district and 24% statewide. These figures describe the school but cannot establish how it compares with similar schools.
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