Summary:
Caldwell-West School District has one middle school, Grover Cleveland Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 610 students. In 2025–2026, its simple average across grades 6–8 was 60% in ELA, compared with 53% statewide, and 46% in Mathematics, compared with 34% statewide. The most important takeaway is that the school remained ahead overall, but its average advantage across eight matched tests narrowed from 15 points in 2024–2025 to 9 points in 2025–2026.
Grover Cleveland Middle School is both the top and bottom performer in this one-school list; that reflects the list’s size, not a comparison with other local schools. Its standout result is eighth-grade Algebra I: 91% were proficient in 2025–2026, versus 75% statewide. Eighth-grade Science was the clearest weakness: 18.6% were proficient, just below the state’s 19.0%. ELA also varied by grade: grade 6 was 62% versus 51% statewide and grade 7 was 68% versus 56%, while grade 8 was 50% versus 53%.
Results fell in most matched tests between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026: the school’s average across those tests declined about 7 points, compared with about 1 point statewide. Grade 6 Mathematics fell 13 points and grade 8 ELA fell 10 points, while grade 8 Mathematics rose 1 point. SchoolDigger’s ranking percentile also declined, from 81 in 2023–2024 to 70 in 2025–2026. Context measures include a student–teacher ratio of 11.5:1 and, in 2024–2025, 13% of students free/reduced lunch eligible; chronic absenteeism was 6.3%, compared with 6.1% districtwide and 14.4% statewide. These figures describe the school but do not explain its test results. Since the list has only one school, it cannot show how schools compare within the district.
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