Chisholm Middle School

Chisholm Middle School is a 247-student school serving grades 6–8 in Enid, Oklahoma. Its latest reported results show proficiency of 45% in English Language Arts, 56% in math and 65% in science. The school is above the state in all three subjects and leads nearby schools in each one, making its broad achievement advantage the most important finding.

The school’s strongest comparisons are in science against the state and district, and in math against nearby schools. Its science result is 35 points above the state and 10 above the district; math is 31 points above the state and 1 above the district. ELA is 19 points above the state, but 5 below the district, making it the relative weak spot. Compared with nearby-school averages, the school is ahead by 25 points in ELA, 35 in math and 31 in science; it also exceeds the highest nearby result in each subject. Grade-level results add detail: grade 8 math is 59%, 42 points above the state, while grade 7 ELA is the school’s strongest ELA grade at 50%.

Recent results are still strong, but ELA and science have declined: ELA fell 12 points, from 57% in 2024–25 to 45% in 2025–26, and science fell 11 points, from 76% to 65%; math remained at 56%. The school’s state advantages in ELA and science narrowed, while its math advantage grew from 30 to 31 points. SchoolDigger ranks the school 9th of 378 statewide, at the 98th percentile with 5 stars. Its 2024–25 student-teacher ratio was 16.6, higher than three of four nearby schools. Also in 2024–25, 34% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, compared with a nearby-school average of 79%; these are contextual differences, not explanations for achievement. Reported chronic absenteeism was 0.4% in 2025–26, down 12 points from 2021–22 and below the state’s 16%.