Middle Schools in Elk City

Elk City has two middle-level schools: Elk City Ies, serving grades 4–6 with 469 students, and Elk City Middle School, serving grades 7–8 with 297 students. Their reported strengths differ: Ies leads in ELA and mathematics, while both schools show a strong science result. Most notably, each school had 47% proficiency in science in 2025–2026, 17 points above the state’s 30%.

Elk City Ies had the stronger all-grades results in ELA and mathematics: 34% versus 23% in ELA, an 11-point lead, and 49% versus 36% in mathematics, a 13-point lead. Ies was 8 points above the state in ELA and 24 points above in mathematics. Elk City Middle School was 11 points above the state in mathematics, but 3 points below it in ELA; the schools tied in science. Because the schools serve different grades, their all-grades results are not direct same-grade comparisons.

Results moved in opposite directions over the two reported years: Ies rose 5 points in both ELA and mathematics and held steady in science, while the middle school fell 10 points in ELA, 9 in mathematics and 5 in science. Grade-level results add useful detail: Ies sixth-grade ELA was 48%, 23 points above the state for that grade, while middle-school seventh-grade ELA was 22%, 1 point below its state comparison. Chronic absenteeism was 32% at the middle school, compared with 19% at Ies and 16% statewide. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students were 65% at Ies and 63% at the middle school; student-teacher ratios were 17 and 14.5, respectively. SchoolDigger placed the middle school in the 93rd statewide percentile in 2024–2025 and the 81st in 2025–2026.