Clinton County

Clinton County Early Childhood Center, Albany Elementary School, Clinton County Middle School and Clinton County High School are the four listed schools, serving children from early childhood through high school. Across the reported tests, results vary substantially by grade and school: the high school has standout 10th-grade scores, while the middle school has several results well below state levels. Across 24 results matched over two years, school scores fell by an average of 3 points as state scores stayed essentially unchanged, making the contrast between schools and grades the most important finding for families.

Clinton County High School has the strongest state-relative results in 10th-grade math and reading: 46% versus 40% in math and 55% versus 49% in reading, or 6 points above the state in both. Albany Elementary School matches the state in 3rd-grade reading at 49%. The clearest low points are at Clinton County Middle School: 5th-grade math is 18% versus 43% statewide, reading is 29% versus 51%, and editing and mechanics is 18% versus 48%—gaps of 25, 22 and 30 points. The middle school’s 8th-grade reading is closer to the state, at 35% versus 40%.

Trends differ by school. Albany’s average results across matched tests rose 5 points, while the high school’s fell 5 and the middle school’s fell 6; the high school’s major 10th-grade gains came alongside declines in four of its six matched results. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose from 11 to 19 for Albany between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026, but fell from 56 to 41 for the high school and from 44 to 16 for the middle school. As context, the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible share was 81% at Albany and 67% at the high school; student-teacher ratios ranged from 11.7 to 14.1 across the four schools. The Early Childhood Center has no test-score results, and two middle-school scores were suppressed.