Summary:
Copeland has one middle school, South Gray Junior High, serving grades 6–8 with 21 students enrolled. Its 2025–2026 results were mixed: English language arts (ELA) was slightly above the Kansas average, math was below it, and science was far above it. The most striking result is science, which rose from 4 points below the state in 2024–2025 to 27 points above it in 2025–2026.
With just one school, there is no local school-to-school comparison; within the school, science was the strongest subject and math the weakest. Science proficiency was 65%, compared with 38% statewide, while ELA was 48% versus 46% statewide and math was 35% versus 41%. Grade-level results show why the overall figures do not tell the whole story: seventh-grade ELA was 22%, 22 points below Kansas, and seventh-grade math was 0%, 38 points below. Eighth-grade results stood out in the other direction: ELA was 75%, 33 points above the state, and math was 55%, 15 points above. Sixth-grade ELA and math were also modestly above state results, by 2 and 3 points.
Results improved year over year in all three subjects, though the scale varied: ELA rose 2 points and math 4 points, while science jumped 28 points as the state science result fell 3 points. Math remains below Kansas overall, even after its improvement. SchoolDigger ranks the school 141st of 368 schools for 2025–2026, at the 62nd percentile with 3 stars; that is up 13 percentile points from 2024–2025, but 2 points below its 2023–2024 percentile. Context measures include a student-teacher ratio of 4.8 and a 62% free/reduced-lunch rate. The reported dropout rate was 6%, above the state’s 1%, while chronic absenteeism was 14%, below the state’s 18%. With enrollment of 21, percentages may reflect results from small groups of students.
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