Summary:
Gallatin County has one listed middle school, Gallatin County Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 316 students. In 2025–2026, the school scored above Kentucky in only one of its 10 reported subject-and-grade comparisons; its average gap from the state widened from 2 points to 6 points below.
Because this is the area’s only listed middle school, there is no meaningful local top-versus-bottom comparison. Against Kentucky, the school’s clearest bright spot was 8th-grade reading: 44% met proficiency, compared with 40% statewide, a 4-point advantage. Its sharpest shortfall was 7th-grade mathematics, where 22% met proficiency versus 39% statewide, a 17-point gap. Across grades, reading was the school’s strongest subject relative to the state: its average was 45% compared with 48% statewide, while mathematics averaged 32% versus 40%. Eighth-grade writing was also below the state result, at 39% versus 48%.
Results generally weakened between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, but there were exceptions: 6th- and 8th-grade mathematics each rose 3 points, and 8th-grade social studies rose 4 points. The steepest decline was 7th-grade mathematics, down 25 points, while Kentucky’s result in that grade fell 4 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking history likewise shows a rise and then a setback: the school moved from the 21st percentile in 2023–2024 to the 41st in 2024–2025, then to the 30th in 2025–2026. Context figures include an 18:1 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 78% of students eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025; reported chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 14%, compared with 17% in Gallatin County and 24% statewide.
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