Summary:
ZIP code 40484 has one listed middle school, Lincoln County Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 697 students. Because it is the only school listed, there is no meaningful comparison among local schools. In 2025–2026, every reported subject-and-grade result was below the state rate; that is the clearest finding for families considering the school.
The school’s strongest result relative to the state was 8th-grade Social Studies: 36% proficient, compared with 39% statewide, a 3-point gap. Its largest gap was in 7th-grade Mathematics, where 23% were proficient versus 39% statewide, a 16-point gap. Mathematics was a broader concern: across grades 6–8, the school averaged 26% compared with the state’s 40%, a 14-point gap. Reading was closer, averaging 39% against 48% statewide, a 9-point gap. These subject comparisons show where results were relatively stronger or weaker, but do not identify local school leaders or trailers.
Results shifted in both directions between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026: 7th-grade Mathematics fell from 33% to 23%, 8th-grade Reading from 40% to 31%, and 7th-grade Science from 27% to 17%; meanwhile, 8th-grade Social Studies rose from 31% to 36%, and Writing from 34% to 36%. SchoolDigger gives the school 1 star and ranks it 266th of 326 schools, at the 18th percentile for 2025–2026; its percentile was 19th in 2023–2024 and 22nd in 2024–2025. As context, 76% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 16.2 that year. Chronic absenteeism was 29% in 2025–2026, above the Lincoln County rate of 25% and the statewide rate of 24%.
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