Summary:
Zip code 41056 has one middle school, Mason County Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 565 students. With no other listed middle schools, families cannot compare schools in the area directly. The most important finding is that Mason County Middle scored below the state in all 10 reported subject-and-grade results in 2025–2026.
There is no meaningful school-to-school leader or trailer; the sole school’s results offer the only picture of local performance. Within its 2025–2026 results, the closest to the state was 8th-grade Editing and Mechanics, at 36% compared with 42%, a 6-point gap. Writing and social studies were each 7 points below the state. The largest gap was in 7th-grade science: 16% compared with 28%, or 12 points below. These are relative strengths and weaknesses, not results above the state. Across the three tested grades, reading and math averages were each about 12 points below their state averages.
Results show some improvement, but also an important exception: reading rose in every tested grade from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026—by 4 points in 6th grade, 8 in 7th, and 1 in 8th—while writing fell 11 points, from 52% to 41%. The average gap across the 10 results narrowed from 12 points to 10 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school 260th of 326 schools, in the 20th percentile with 1 star, in 2025–2026; the prior year it ranked 268th of 320, in the 16th percentile with 1 star. Its 2023–2024 ranking was 216th of 324, in the 33rd percentile with 2 stars. Other context includes a student-teacher ratio of 15.1 in 2024–2025 and 67% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year.
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