Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 73075

Two middle schools in zip code 73075 serve grades 4–9: Pauls Valley Intermediate School serves grades 4–6, and Pauls Valley Junior High School serves grades 7–9; together they enroll 611 students. Their 2025–2026 results show science as a relative strength, with both schools above the state’s 30% all-grades result, while mathematics is the clearest shared concern. The most important difference for families to note is Junior High’s mathematics result: 13%, 12 percentage points below the state and 11 points below Intermediate.

Pauls Valley Intermediate leads in all-grades ELA at 27% and mathematics at 24%, compared with Junior High’s 24% and 13%; its ELA is 1 point above the state, while its mathematics is 1 point below. Pauls Valley Junior High stands out in science, scoring 46% versus Intermediate’s 35% and the state’s 30%. Grade-level results add useful detail: Intermediate’s grade 4 mathematics is 37%, 4 points above the state, but its grade 5 result is 17%, 11 points below. Junior High’s grade 8 science is 46%, 10 points above the state, while its grade 7 mathematics is 15%, 11 points below. These contrasts show that strengths and needs vary by subject and grade.

Recent all-grades results are mixed rather than improving across the board: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Intermediate’s ELA stayed at 27%, mathematics slipped from 25% to 24%, and science fell from 46% to 35%; Junior High’s ELA rose from 23% to 24%, mathematics dropped from 20% to 13%, and science rose from 41% to 46%. Both schools report a 14.6 student-teacher ratio; enrollment is 289 at Intermediate and 322 at Junior High. Their 2024–2025 low-income measure, free/reduced lunch eligible, is 77% at Intermediate and 74% at Junior High. Intermediate reports 0% chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026, compared with 8.5% at Junior High and 15.9% statewide. SchoolDigger ranks the Pauls Valley district 166th of 450, in the 63rd percentile, with 3 stars—not an individual-school rating. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades results are not like-grade comparisons.