Summary:
Webster County has one listed middle school, Webster County Middle School, serving grades 7–8 with 319 students. With no other listed middle schools for local comparison, the results are best understood against Kentucky’s statewide figures. The most important finding is that the school was below the state in all eight reported 2025–2026 KSA grade-and-subject results, averaging 32% proficiency compared with 41% statewide.
Webster County Middle School’s results were closest to the state in 8th-grade math: 38% proficient versus 39%, a 1-point gap. The largest gap was in 8th-grade writing, where 25% were proficient compared with 48% statewide, a 23-point difference. Other gaps ranged from 5 points in 7th-grade math to 13 points in 8th-grade editing and mechanics. These results show that writing is a particular area of relative concern, while 8th-grade math is comparatively close to the state.
Results weakened overall from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the school’s average fell 6 points, from 37% to 32%, while the state average fell 2 points, from 42% to 41%; the school’s average gap widened from 5 to 9 points. Most school test results declined, though 7th-grade reading rose 1 point, from 43% to 44%. SchoolDigger’s ranking also moved down from 177th of 324 schools (45th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 251st of 326 (23rd percentile) in 2025–2026. As context, the school reported 53% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025 and a 21.2:1 student-teacher ratio that year; neither figure can be compared with another listed school in the area.
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