Summary:
ZIP code 67501 has three public middle schools serving grades 7–8: two in Hutchinson Public Schools and Reno Valley Middle School in the Nickerson district; together, they enroll 685 students. Results vary considerably among the schools. The clearest overall finding is that Reno Valley leads in all three 2025–2026 subjects, though it remains below the state in ELA.
Reno Valley Middle School scored 40% in ELA, 40% in math and 50% in science, leading the next-highest school by 10, 11 and 21 points, respectively. It was 6 points below the state in ELA, 1 point below in math and 12 points above in science. Among the Hutchinson schools, Hutchinson Middle School 7 had the stronger math result (28% versus 19%), while Hutchinson Middle School 8 led in ELA (30% versus 27%) and science (29% versus a reported 0%). SchoolDigger ranks Reno Valley 144th of 368 schools, at the 61st percentile with 3 stars; Hutchinson Middle School 8 ranks 316th, at the 14th percentile with 1 star, and Hutchinson Middle School 7 ranks 346th, at the 6th percentile with 0 stars.
Recent results show different trends by subject: the three-school ELA average rose from 29% to 32% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while the average math result slipped from 30% to 29%. For science, the comparable results at Hutchinson Middle School 8 and Reno Valley rose from a 28% average to 39%, moving from 13 points below the state to 1 point above. Reno Valley’s overall scores also hide a grade-level split: its seventh-grade ELA and math results were 33% and 29%, below state results of 44% and 38%, while its eighth-grade scores were 48% and 52%, above state results of 42% and 40%. Reno Valley also has the lowest student–teacher ratio (7.9, compared with 11.6 and 12.2) and free/reduced-lunch rate (53%, compared with 76% and 70%); these are contextual differences, not explanations for test results.
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