Summary:
Families in the East Gibson School Corporation area have one middle school option: Wood Memorial Middle School in Oakland City, IN, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 157 students. Because it is the only middle school in the East Gibson School Corporation, the useful comparisons are to the district, the state, and the school's own past performance. The district overall ranks 212 of 374 in Indiana, at the 43rd percentile with 2 stars, while the school itself ranked higher in 2025–2026: 199 of 486 schools, at the 59th percentile with 3 stars.
Wood Memorial's trajectory is encouraging. Its state rank improved from 250 of 491 (49th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–2024 to 219 of 480 (54th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025, and then to 199 of 486 (59th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026 — a steady climb from below-average to above-average. Seventh grade is the clear bright spot: ELA proficiency was 54.35% versus 41.7% statewide, and math was 39.13% versus 35.9% statewide. Attendance is a relative strength, with chronic absenteeism at 11.7%, below the district's 14.2% and the state's 16.7%. The school also reports a low student-teacher ratio of 11.2, and its Biology End-of-Course proficiency of 50% far exceeds the district's 30.16%.
The main academic concern is math. All-grade math proficiency was 33.11%, below the district's 39.1%, and it was unchanged from the prior year. Sixth grade math was the weakest result at 28.57%, compared with 40.2% statewide. Science dropped sharply from 51.11% to 33.33% in one year, though that figure matches the 6th grade result and may reflect a different cohort rather than a schoolwide decline. ELA improved overall to 42.95%, above the district's 38.97%, but 6th and 8th grade ELA remained below state averages. With only 157 students, grade-level results rest on small groups, so multi-year trends are more reliable than single-year swings.
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