Middle Schools in Wolfe County

Wolfe County has one middle school, Wolfe County Middle School, serving grades 7–8 and enrolling 148 students. With no other local middle schools, families can compare its results with Kentucky’s but not with another school in the county. In 2025–2026, the school was above the state proficiency rate in 6 of 8 reported subject-and-grade results. The clearest concern is attendance: chronic absenteeism was 44%, compared with 24% statewide and 38% in Wolfe County.

The school’s strongest result was grade 8 Editing and Mechanics, where 63% were proficient—21 percentage points above the state’s 42%. It also stood out in grade 7 Reading, at 62% versus 50% statewide, and grade 8 Social Studies, at 49% versus 39%. Its lowest score was grade 7 Science, at 35%, though that was still 7 points above the state. Grade 8 Writing was the biggest shortfall: 41% proficient compared with 48% statewide, or 7 points below. Grade 7 Mathematics was also slightly below the state, at 38% versus 39%.

Results declined overall from the prior year, though some subjects moved in a different direction: across the seven comparable tests, the school’s average fell from 55% in 2024–2025 to 49% in 2025–2026, while the state average slipped from 44% to 42%. Grade 7 Reading rose 13 points, but grade 7 Mathematics fell 23 points. SchoolDigger gave the school 4 stars and a rank of 88 out of 326 in 2025–2026; its percentile was 73, down from 79 the year before but up from 43 in 2023–2024. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 13.4 and 79% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025.