Summary:
Middle-school options in zip code 42445 consist of one school, Caldwell County Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 400 students in Caldwell County. With no other listed middle schools for comparison, the clearest picture comes from how the school’s results compare with Kentucky’s: its strongest results are in three grade 8 subjects, while grade 7 Reading is its most notable relative weakness.
Caldwell County Middle is the only local school, so it is both the top and bottom of the listed group by default. Compared with Kentucky in 2025–2026, it was ahead by 14 points in grade 8 Editing and Mechanics (56% versus 42%), 10 points in grade 8 Writing (58% versus 48%), and 9 points in grade 8 Social Studies (48% versus 39%). Grade 7 Reading was 9 points below the state (41% versus 50%). Across grades 6–8, its average was 42% in Mathematics, 2 points above the state, and 47% in Reading, 1 point below.
Results shifted unevenly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: grade 8 Social Studies rose 11 points, while grade 8 Mathematics fell 12 points. Across the same 10 subject-and-grade results, the school’s average dipped from 46.1% to 45.7%, but its advantage over the state widened from about 3 points to about 4. SchoolDigger gives the school 3 stars and ranks it 118 of 326 schools, at the 64th percentile; its percentile had dipped to 56 the previous year after being 62 in 2023–2024. Other context includes a 16.8:1 student-teacher ratio and 64% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 26% in 2025–2026, above the state’s 24% and the district’s 23%, while the reported dropout rate was 0%.
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