Summary:
Bowling Green Junior High is the only middle school listed in Bowling Green Independent, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 1,042 students. Its 2025–2026 results were above the state in most reported subject-and-grade comparisons, but performance varied by grade and subject. Most importantly, the school’s overall lead over the state narrowed: its average across the listed results was 45% compared with the state’s 42%, down from a 5-point lead the previous year.
There is no separate top or bottom school to compare because this is the only school in the list; the clearest standouts are within its results. Eighth-grade math was the strongest comparison, with 51% proficient versus 39% statewide, a 12-point lead. By contrast, sixth-grade reading was 50% versus 54% statewide, a 4-point shortfall. The school was also above the state in seventh-grade science by 6 points (34% versus 28%) and in eighth-grade writing by 4 points (52% versus 48%). Reading was near state level overall, averaging 48% compared with 48% statewide, but that masks the sixth-grade shortfall and above-state results in grades 7 and 8.
Results mostly declined between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, with seventh-grade reading the notable improvement, rising 3 points to 53%; eighth-grade reading fell 6 points to 42%, and editing and mechanics fell 7 points to 46%. SchoolDigger rankings were broadly steady: 121st of 326 schools in 2025–2026, after 120th of 320 the year before and 113th of 324 two years earlier. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 17.9 in 2024–2025 and 55% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 11%, below the district’s 11% and the state’s 24%, while the dropout rate was 0.4%, compared with 0.5% districtwide and 1% statewide. With only one school listed, these figures describe the school but do not support comparisons with local peers.
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