Summary:
Mayfield Independent has one middle school, Mayfield Middle School, serving grades 5–8, with 559 students. Across the 15 reported subject-and-grade results, the school averaged 36% proficient in 2025–2026, compared with 42% statewide. Its latest results show a clear shift below the state average: the school was 6 points behind overall.
Mayfield Middle School’s strongest subject comparison was writing, averaging 47% proficient across grades 5 and 8, versus 42% statewide—a 5-point advantage. Grade 8 writing stood out most: 56% proficient, compared with 48% statewide, an 8-point lead. The weakest comparison was grade 5 reading, at 25% versus 51% statewide, a 26-point deficit; grade 5 social studies was also low, at 18% versus 38%. The overall subject averages were below the state in mathematics (31% versus 41%), reading (42% versus 49%), and social studies (29% versus 39%), while writing was the only subject average above it. Some grade 8 results were exceptions: reading, social studies, and editing and mechanics were each above the state.
Results declined substantially from the prior year: across the same results, the school average fell from 47% in 2024–2025 to 36% in 2025–2026, while the state average slipped from 43% to 42%. Mathematics fell in every tested grade, by 13 to 20 points, and grade 5 reading dropped from 44% to 25%. Writing also fell, from a 61% average to 47%, though it remained a relative strength. SchoolDigger ranked the school 177 of 326, at the 46th percentile with 2 stars, in 2025–2026, down from 108 of 320, the 66th percentile with 3 stars, in 2024–2025. As context, the school’s 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 16.9, and 68% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. With only one school listed, local school-to-school comparisons are not available.
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