Summary:
Zip code 73632 has one middle school, Cordell Junior High School, serving grades 7–8 with 84 students. With no other middle schools in the area list, families can compare Cordell’s results with state and district figures, but not with local peer schools. Its clearest strength is science: 62% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, 32 percentage points above Oklahoma’s 30%.
Cordell Junior High School stands out in science and is also ahead of the state in English language arts (ELA), while math is its weakest subject in the all-grades comparison. ELA proficiency was 32%, 6 points above the state’s 26%, though 6 points below the Cordell district result of 38%. Math was 23%, 2 points below the state and 14 below the district. Grade results add nuance: Cordell was above the state in grade 8 math, 22% to 17%, but below it in grade 7, 24% to 26%. ELA was above the state in both grades: 35% to 23% in grade 7 and 28% to 20% in grade 8.
Results improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, especially in science: Cordell gained 23 percentage points in science, 4 in ELA, and 1 in math. Science rose from 39% to 62% while the state stayed at 30%; the school’s three-subject average advantage over the state grew from about 2 points to 12, largely because of science. SchoolDigger ranked Cordell 61st of 378 schools, at the 84th percentile with four stars in 2025–2026, up 10 percentile points from the prior year but below its 98th-percentile standing in 2022–2023; the schools included in rankings differed by year. Other context: the student-teacher ratio was 10.6 in 2024–2025, and 50% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; chronic absenteeism was 15% in 2025–2026, compared with 16% statewide and 17% in the district.
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