Summary:
Cumberland County has one middle school, Cumberland County Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 220 students. Because it is the only school in the county list, families cannot compare its results with other local middle schools. The central takeaway is that its performance varies by subject and grade rather than being consistently above or below the state.
Cumberland County Middle School’s clearest strength is 8th-grade writing: 58% were proficient in 2025–2026, 10 percentage points above the state’s 48%. It also beat the state in 8th-grade editing and mechanics, 48% to 42% (6 points), and 6th-grade reading, 55% to 54% (1 point). Its largest shortfall was 7th-grade reading, at 41% compared with 50% statewide (9 points lower); 6th-grade math was 37% versus 42% (5 points lower). Four of the nine results that can be compared were above state results, and five were below. The 7th-grade science score was suppressed and cannot be compared.
Year-to-year results show both improvement and setbacks: 6th-grade math rose from 28% to 37% and 6th-grade reading from 49% to 55%, while 8th-grade editing and mechanics fell from 63% to 48%. Writing dipped from 60% to 58% but remained 10 points above the state in 2025–2026. SchoolDigger ranked the school 165th of 326, in the 49th percentile with 3 stars, for 2025–2026—similar to its 167th-of-320 ranking and 48th percentile the prior year, but below its 65th percentile in 2023–2024. Other context: the student–teacher ratio was 15.7 in 2024–2025, and 79% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch that year. Chronic absenteeism was 34% in 2025–2026, compared with 29% districtwide and 24% statewide.
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