Summary:
Middle school options in ZIP code 62864 consist of one school, Zadok Casey Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 380 students. In 2025–2026, 34% of students were proficient in English Language Arts (ELA), compared with 56% statewide, while 13% were proficient in math, compared with 40% statewide; eighth-grade science proficiency was 39%, versus 52% statewide. The most important finding is that results remain substantially below state levels, especially in math, where the gap is 27 percentage points.
There is no meaningful top-to-bottom comparison because Zadok Casey is the only school in the area. Its results were close to the district’s in ELA: 34% proficient at the school versus 34% in Mount Vernon School District 80, a 1-point school advantage. In all-grades math, the school’s 13% was 3 points below the district’s 16%; eighth-grade science proficiency was 39% at both. Grade-level math results matched the district’s in grades 6, 7, and 8, despite the lower schoolwide comparison, so those figures tell different parts of the story.
Proficiency improved in all three reported subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose about 5 points, math about 3 points, and eighth-grade science about 11 points. The school also moved closer to state results in each subject, with the science gap narrowing by about 5 points. However, SchoolDigger’s ranking moved in the opposite direction: Zadok Casey fell from the 23rd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 8th percentile in 2025–2026, while its latest rank was 1,032 of 1,126. For context, its student-teacher ratio was 11.8 and 84% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these figures do not provide a comparison with other local schools. With only one school listed, school-to-school differences cannot be assessed.
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