Middle Schools in Buhler

Prairie Hills Middle is the only middle school in the Buhler list; it serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 532 students. There are no other listed local middle schools to compare it with, so the picture for families is this school’s results and context. In 2025–26, Prairie Hills was above the state proficiency rate in all three reported subjects, making its broad improvement relative to the state the most important finding.

Prairie Hills has no local top or bottom school to distinguish it from, but its grade-level results show clear strengths and a specific weak spot. Across all grades, proficiency was 49% in ELA, 45% in math, and 42% in science, compared with state rates of 46%, 41%, and 38%; the school’s advantages were 3, 4, and 4 percentage points, respectively. The strongest grade-level comparisons were 8th-grade math, 51% versus 40% statewide (+12 points), and 6th-grade ELA, 54% versus 42% (+11 points). By contrast, 7th grade was below the state in both ELA (43% versus 44%, −2 points) and math (37% versus 38%, −1 point). The results therefore are not equally strong in every grade.

Results improved across the board: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, school proficiency rose 6 points in ELA, 7 in math, and 3 in science. The school also shifted from below the state in all three subjects to above it; its state-relative gaps improved by 4 points in ELA, 5 in math, and 7 in science. SchoolDigger ranked Prairie Hills at the 68th percentile in 2025–26, up 12 percentile points from the prior year and close to its 69th-percentile standing in 2023–24. Other context includes a 12.8 student–teacher ratio and a 43% free/reduced-lunch rate, both reported for 2024–25, plus 9% chronic absenteeism in 2025–26, below the state’s 18% but above the district’s 7%. Because this list contains just one school, these figures cannot establish how Prairie Hills compares with local peer schools.