Best Middle Schools in Hugo, OK

Hugo has one middle school, Hugo Middle School, serving grades six through eight with 216 students. Since it is the only school in the area, there are no other local schools to compare; the most useful benchmarks are the state and the Hugo district. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades proficiency was 10% in English language arts (ELA), 9% in math, and 25% in science, compared with state results of 26%, 25%, and 30%. The most important takeaway is that science is much closer to the state level, while ELA and math each trail the state by 16 percentage points.

Science is the school’s clearest relative strength: its 25% proficiency was 7 points above the district’s 18%, though still 5 points below the state. Eighth-grade math is another bright spot, with 15% proficient—just 2 points below the state’s 17%; by comparison, sixth-grade math was 7% versus 26% statewide, and seventh-grade math was 6% versus 26%. ELA was below the state in every grade, with gaps of 11 points in sixth grade, 17 in seventh, and 12 in eighth. SchoolDigger ranked the school 333rd of 378 Oklahoma schools in 2025–2026, at the 12th percentile and with one star.

Proficiency improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose from 7% to 10%, math from 7% to 9%, and science from 22% to 25%. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking also rose from 9th in 2024–2025 to 12th, although it remained below the 27th-percentile ranking in 2021–2022. Chronic absenteeism was 12% in 2025–2026, about 1 point above the district and 4 points below the state. As context, the 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 18.7 to 1, and 91% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures describe the school but do not explain its results.