Middle Schools in Clay Community Schools

Clay Community Schools includes one middle school, North Clay Middle School in Brazil, Indiana, serving grades 6–8 with 734 students. The district is ranked 97th of 374 Indiana districts, at the 74th percentile with a 4-star rating, and because it has only this one middle school, the school largely defines the district’s middle-school profile. The school has been a 4-star school in each of the three reported years, and in 2025–2026 it ranked 116th of 486 Indiana middle schools, placing in the 76th percentile—up from 138th of 491 and the 72nd percentile in 2023–2024.

English Language Arts is the clearest academic success. All-grade ELA proficiency rose from 46.24% in 2024–2025 to 55.27% in 2025–2026, while the district rose from 48.28% to 53.21%, moving the school from slightly below to slightly above the district. Grade-level ELA is above the state at every grade: 6th grade by 6.24 points, 7th by 14.79 points, and 8th by 18.28 points. Science is also a relative strength—all-grade Science is 53.94% versus the district’s 50.66%, and 6th-grade Science is 12.74 points above the state—though Science declined from 61.98% in 2024–2025. Math is the main weakness: all-grade Math is 36.30%, 12.59 points below the district’s 48.89%, a similar gap to 2024–2025. The problem is concentrated in 8th grade, where Math is 25.22%, below the district’s 27.68% and the state’s 34.2%; 6th- and 7th-grade Math are above the state.

Other key metrics: enrollment 734; chronic absenteeism 13.8% in 2024–2025, better than the state’s 16.7% but worse than the district’s 11.8%; free/reduced lunch 46.87%; per-student spending $11,604; and a 12.9:1 student-teacher ratio, implying roughly 57 teachers. Overall, the school is a solid, top-quartile, 4-star Indiana middle school with strong ELA and Science results and improving ELA outcomes. The most actionable areas are 8th-grade Math, the persistent all-grade Math gap versus the district, the recent Science decline, and chronic absenteeism above the district rate. For families in Clay Community Schools, this single middle school is the district’s middle-school story.