Summary:
Zip code 40383 has one listed middle school, Woodford County Middle School, serving grades 6–8 in Woodford County, with 897 students. With no other middle schools in this list, families have no local school-to-school comparison; the most important finding is that the school outperformed Kentucky’s state results in all 10 reported subject-and-grade results in 2025–2026.
Woodford County Middle School stands out above the state across the board, with advantages ranging from 3 points in sixth-grade math to 16 points in seventh-grade reading. Reading is its strongest subject in the three-grade comparison: the school averaged 59% proficient, versus 48% statewide, an 11-point advantage. Math averaged 48%, versus 40% statewide, an 8-point advantage. Seventh-grade reading was the strongest individual result at 66%; eighth-grade reading was the lowest at 49%, but still 9 points above the state. Because this is the only school listed, there is no local bottom-ranked school to compare.
Results improved overall from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, though some subjects declined: the school’s average across the 10 matched results rose from 48% to 51%, while the state average fell from 43% to 42%. Math increased in all three grades, including a 9-point rise in eighth grade; seventh-grade reading rose 11 points, while sixth-grade reading slipped 1 point. Science was unchanged, while writing and editing and mechanics fell 4 and 2 points, respectively. SchoolDigger’s ranking improved from 118 of 320 schools (63rd percentile) in 2024–2025 to 77 of 326 (76th percentile) in 2025–2026—41 places and 13 percentile points higher, following a dip from 70th percentile in 2023–2024. Context measures include a student-teacher ratio of 16.6 in 2024–2025 and 44% eligible for free/reduced lunch that year; chronic absenteeism was 18% in 2025–2026, compared with 17% districtwide and 24% statewide.
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