Middle Schools in LaRue County

LaRue County has one middle school, LaRue County Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 522 students. Its 2025–26 results show a mixed profile: the school’s averages were below the state in Mathematics (37% versus 40%) and Reading (46% versus 48%), but above the state in eighth-grade Writing, Social Studies and Editing and Mechanics. The most important takeaway is that performance varies by subject, rather than being uniformly strong or weak.

There are no top- and bottom-ranked local schools to compare because this is the only middle school in the list. The school’s strongest results against the state were eighth-grade Writing, at 57% versus 48% (+9 percentage points), and Social Studies, at 47% versus 39% (+8 points); Editing and Mechanics was also higher, 47% versus 42% (+5 points). Mathematics was below the state in all three grades, while Reading was below in grades 6 and 7 but above in grade 8 (42% versus 40%). Grade 7 Science matched the state at 28%.

Scores declined in all ten matched subject-and-grade results from 2024–25 to 2025–26. Across those results, the school’s average fell from 50% to 43%, while the state average moved from 43% to 42%; the school’s lead narrowed from 7 percentage points to 1. LaRue County Middle School also moved from 99th of 320 schools (69th percentile) in SchoolDigger’s 2024–25 rankings to 154th of 326 (53rd percentile) in 2025–26, earning 3 stars in both years. As context, chronic absenteeism was 15% in 2025–26, below the state’s 24%; the 2024–25 student–teacher ratio was 15.6:1, and 56% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25.