Summary:
The 40229 middle-school list contains one school, Knight Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 757 students. Its results can be compared with state and Jefferson County figures, but there is no other listed school for a local comparison. The most important finding is that Knight’s average across its 10 reported 2025–2026 subject-and-grade results was 24%, compared with 42% statewide, an 18-point gap.
Knight Middle is both the highest- and lowest-performing school in this one-school list, so that distinction does not compare it with local peers. It scored below the state in all 10 reported results, with gaps ranging from 13 to 24 points; the largest was grade 6 reading, at 30% versus 54%, and the smallest was grade 8 social studies, at 26% versus 39%. Knight was also below Jefferson County in every reported result, by 1 to 10 points. Reading and Editing and Mechanics show especially large state gaps: reading averaged 27% across grades 6–8 versus 48% statewide, while Editing and Mechanics was 21% versus 42%.
Results improved on average across the nine subject-and-grade combinations reported in both years: Knight’s average rose from 21% in 2024–2025 to 25% in 2025–2026, a 4-point increase, while the state average fell by 1 point; the average gap narrowed by about 5 points. Gains were uneven: grade 7 reading rose 12 points and grade 8 social studies rose 9, while Editing and Mechanics fell 5 points. SchoolDigger ranked Knight 309 of 326 schools (5th percentile) in 2025–2026, a modest improvement from 312 of 320 (3rd percentile) the prior year. Other context includes a student-teacher ratio of 18.7 in 2024–2025 and a free/reduced lunch eligible measure of 72% that year; chronic absenteeism was 32%, compared with 24% statewide, while the dropout rate was 0.8%, below the state’s 1%.
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