Somerset Independent

The three schools in Somerset Independent serve students from prekindergarten through grade 12 and enroll 1,762 students in total. Their 2025–2026 results show different school profiles, with Hopkins Elementary School the clearest academic standout: it scored above the state in all five reported subject-and-grade results.

Hopkins had the largest average advantage over the state, 20 points across its results; Somerset High School averaged 8 points above, while Meece Middle School averaged at the state level across 15 results. Hopkins’ leads ranged from 14 points in reading to 28 in mathematics. Somerset High was 14 points above the state in both social studies and editing and mechanics, but matched the state in writing. Meece’s results were more uneven: it led by 10 points in grade-7 mathematics but trailed by 12 in grade-8 writing. SchoolDigger ranked Hopkins in the 93rd statewide percentile, Somerset High in the 80th, and Meece in the 46th in 2025–2026.

Across the same set of results, the average advantage over the state narrowed from 8 points in 2024–2025 to 6 points in 2025–2026. Meece’s grade-8 mathematics, reading, and writing proficiency each fell by 9 or 10 points, while grade-7 mathematics rose 3 points. SchoolDigger rankings also fell from the prior year for all three schools: 96th to 93rd percentile at Hopkins, 83rd to 80th at Somerset High, and 54th to 46th at Meece. Attendance is a notable consideration at Somerset High: its graduation rate rounded to 98%, but chronic absenteeism was 38%, compared with 17% at Hopkins and 23% at Meece. Student-teacher ratios were 16.6 at Hopkins, 12.5 at Somerset High, and 14.2 at Meece; free/reduced lunch eligible shares in 2024–2025 were 70%, 56%, and 66%, respectively.