Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 88101

ZIP code 88101 in Clovis, New Mexico contains three middle schools — all part of Clovis Municipal Schools — serving 1,518 students combined in a high-poverty area where free or reduced-price lunch rates run from 83.76% to 88.24%: W D Gattis Middle School (grades 6–8, 527 students), Marshall 6th Grade Academy (grade 6 only, 511 students), and Yucca Middle (grades 7–8, 480 students). Because the grades are split differently, only Gattis and Yucca are directly comparable in grades 7–8, and only Marshall reports 6th-grade results — Gattis's 6th-grade figures are suppressed by the state, so they are unknown rather than poor.

Reading and writing is the shared strength. Every school here beats both the district and the state in English/Language Arts, led by W D Gattis Middle School at 49.9% proficient — about 6.6 points above both — with the group's best state rank (77 of 191, 60th percentile, 3 stars). Yucca Middle follows at 47.96% ELA and a rising rank (91 of 191, 52nd percentile, 3 stars). Math is the opposite story: Marshall 6th Grade Academy is the math standout, with 6th-grade math at 36.95% versus the state's 31.89%, the smallest classes (ratio 11.8), and a rank that climbed to 81st percentile (4 stars) in 2023-2024. But Marshall declined in both ELA and math in the most recent year, and no rank is reported since 2023-2024. Yucca holds the ZIP's lowest math score — 8th grade at 17.5%, below district and state — plus the largest classes (ratio 17.2).

In the overlapping grades 7–8, Gattis wins four of five subject comparisons (7th ELA, 8th ELA, 8th math, 8th science); Yucca edges only 7th math. Both schools show a nearly identical 7th-to-8th-grade ELA slide of about 8 points, suggesting a grade-level pattern rather than a school-specific one, and 8th-grade science flipped between them in a single year. Families choosing a school should weigh Gattis's strongest overall record, Marshall's distinctive 6th-grade math results against its recent declines, and Yucca's improving ELA and rank against its weak math and larger classes.