Middle Schools in Ashland

Ashland has one middle school, Ashland Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 37 students. With no other local middle school in this list, families do not have a school-to-school comparison. In 2025–26, the school’s all-grade math proficiency was 43%, slightly above Kansas at 41%, while ELA proficiency was 39%, 7 percentage points below the state’s 46%. The most important takeaway is that results differ by subject: math was just above the state average, but ELA was notably below it.

Ashland Junior High School is both the highest- and lowest-ranked school locally by default; that does not show how it compares with other nearby schools. SchoolDigger rates it 2 stars, ranking it 199th of 368 schools and at the 46th percentile for 2025–26. The separate rating for the Ashland district is 4 stars, rank 74 of 268, at the 72nd percentile. These ratings provide broader context, not a local comparison between middle schools.

Recent results show that the school’s math advantage over Kansas narrowed sharply: proficiency fell from 54% in 2024–25 to 43% in 2025–26, while the state rose from 39% to 41%. The school’s lead shrank by 13 percentage points, from 15 points to 2. ELA rose slightly, from 38% to 39%, but remained about 6 points below the state in both years. Grade-level results add an important exception: sixth-grade math was 27%, 14 points below the state, while seventh-grade math was 53%, 16 points above. SchoolDigger’s rank also moved down 87 places between 2023–24 and 2025–26, and its percentile fell 23 points. The school’s 2025–26 chronic absenteeism rate was 3%, compared with 14% for the district and 18% for Kansas; its 2024–25 student–teacher ratio was 14.5 and its free/reduced-lunch rate was 49%. With just one school listed, 37 students, and no grade 8 results supplied, these figures describe the school but do not establish local patterns or explain its results.