Middle Schools in Paris Independent

Paris Independent has one listed middle school: Paris Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 180 students. Its 2025–2026 results show that the school’s strongest relative score was Grade 8 Writing, while Reading and Mathematics also had notable gaps from state results. Most importantly, the school scored below the state in all ten reported subject-and-grade results, with gaps ranging from 10 to 33 percentage points.

Grade 8 Writing stands out as the closest result to the state: 38% of students were proficient, compared with 48% statewide, a 10-point gap. The largest shortfall was Grade 6 Reading, at 21% versus 54% statewide, a 33-point gap. Grade 7 Mathematics was also notably low at 10%, 29 points below the state’s 39%; Grade 7 Science was 10%, 18 points below the state. Across grades, the school averaged 15% in Mathematics and 22% in Reading, compared with 40% and 48% statewide, respectively. Reading results were higher than the school’s Mathematics results, but the gaps to the state were similarly large.

Across eight results that can be compared between years, the school’s average fell from 30% in 2024–2025 to 23% in 2025–2026, while the state average declined from 45% to 44%; the average gap widened from 15 to 21 points. Six school results declined, including Grade 7 Mathematics, which fell from 36% to 10%; Grade 8 Writing improved from 35% to 38%, narrowing its gap. SchoolDigger ranked Paris Middle School 313th of 326 statewide schools in 2025–2026, at the 4th percentile, compared with 287th of 320 the prior year. Other context: the student–teacher ratio was 17.1 in 2024–2025, and 76% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 27%, versus 24% statewide, while the reported dropout rate was 0%, versus 1% statewide. With one listed middle school, there is no local school-to-school comparison, and percentages may be sensitive to small student counts.