Summary:
Zip code 40769 has one middle school, Whitley County Middle School, serving grades 7–8 and 547 students. Its 2025–2026 KSA results were consistently above state results: the school’s average across eight subject-and-grade results was 60%, compared with 41% statewide. Most importantly, every reported result exceeded its corresponding state result, by 14 to 23 percentage points.
Because there is only one school on the list, there is no local school-to-school leader or trailing school; the strongest and weakest results are within Whitley County Middle School’s own profile. Seventh-grade reading was highest at 73%, 23 points above the state’s 50%, followed by eighth-grade writing at 71%, also 23 points above the state. Seventh-grade science was lowest at 43%, but still 15 points above the state’s 28%. Eighth-grade mathematics had the smallest school–state advantage, at 14 points.
Overall, the school’s average rose from 59% in 2024–2025 to 60% in 2025–2026, while the state average across the same results fell from 42% to 41%; the average school–state advantage widened from 17 to 19 points. Results varied by subject: seventh-grade reading climbed 9 points, while eighth-grade editing and mechanics fell 5 points and seventh-grade science fell 4 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking improved from 48th of 324 schools (85th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024 to 19th of 326 (94th percentile, 5 stars) in 2025–2026. One concern to ask about is chronic absenteeism: 32% in 2025–2026, compared with 30% districtwide and 24% statewide. As context, 76% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 14:1 that year. With only one school listed, these data cannot show how it compares with other local middle schools.
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