Summary:
The middle-school picture in Campbellsville Independent consists of one school, Campbellsville Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 284 students. With no other local middle schools to compare, the most useful yardstick is state and district performance. In 2025–2026, the school’s equal-weight average across ten reported subject-and-grade results was 38%, compared with 42% statewide. The clearest overall finding is that its average was 4 percentage points below Kentucky’s.
There is no local top or bottom school: Campbellsville Middle is the only school in the list. Its strongest result relative to the state was grade 8 social studies, where 43% were proficient versus 39% statewide, while grade 8 writing matched the state at 48%. The largest gap was in grade 8 editing and mechanics: 30% versus 42%, or 12 points below the state. Mathematics was also below the state in all three grades—by 8 points in grade 6, 4 in grade 7 and 6 in grade 8. Results were close to district levels overall: the school’s average was 38.3% versus 37.8% for the district.
Results improved overall, but not across every subject. The school’s average rose from 36.6% in 2024–2025 to 38.3% in 2025–2026, a gain of 2 points; its gap with the state narrowed by 3 points. Grade 8 social studies gained 16 points and reading gained 11, while editing and mechanics fell 8 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking rose from the 23rd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 37th in 2025–2026; the latest listing was 207 of 326 schools and 2 stars. Other context: the student-teacher ratio was 11.1 in 2024–2025, and 61% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 25%, below the district’s 27% but above the state’s 24%.
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