Summary:
Zip code 41179 has one middle school, Lewis County Middle School, serving grades 7–8 with 290 students in Lewis County. Its 2025–2026 results show a sharply mixed profile: it was above the state in three of eight grade-and-subject comparisons, matched the state in two, and fell below it in three. The most important takeaway is that its overall position improved from below to above the state across the same eight score comparisons.
Lewis County Middle stands out most in 8th-grade Writing and Editing and Mechanics: 62% were proficient in Writing versus 48% statewide, a 14-point advantage, and 57% in Editing and Mechanics versus 42%, a 15-point advantage. The largest shortfall was 7th-grade Science, at 19% versus 28% statewide, or 9 points lower. Math was also below state results in both grades: 32% versus 39% in 7th grade and 35% versus 39% in 8th. Reading was stronger, matching the state at 50% in 7th grade and exceeding it by 4 points in 8th.
Results improved overall, but not in every subject: the school’s equal-weighted average across the eight score cells rose from 39% in 2024–2025 to 42% in 2025–2026, while the state average fell from 42% to 41%; the school’s relative position improved by 5 points. Writing and Editing and Mechanics each gained 10 points, while 7th-grade Math fell 11 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking also rose, from 200th of 320 schools (38th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–2025 to 146th of 326 (55th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026. Context figures for 2024–2025 include 70% free/reduced lunch eligible and a student-teacher ratio of 18.2 to 1; in 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 28%, compared with 24% statewide and 30% in the district. These figures describe the school but do not establish what drives its results.
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