Summary:
Zip code 74016 has one middle school, Chelsea Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 191 students. Because it is the only school listed, there is no school-to-school leader or comparison. In 2025–2026, its proficiency was below Oklahoma’s in all three reported subjects: English Language Arts I was 11% versus 26% statewide, mathematics was 9% versus 25%, and science was 26% versus 30%. The most important takeaway is that results lagged the state in every subject, though the science gap was much smaller.
Science is the school’s relative bright spot, while mathematics is its weakest state comparison: Chelsea trailed by 4 percentage points in science, 15 points in English Language Arts I, and 16 points in mathematics. The largest grade-level gap was in sixth-grade mathematics, where 6% were proficient compared with 26% statewide, a 20-point difference. Results also varied across grades rather than rising steadily: English Language Arts I proficiency was 14%, 15%, and 7% in grades 6, 7, and 8; mathematics was 6%, 16%, and 5%.
Proficiency improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in every subject: English Language Arts I rose from 10% to 11%, mathematics from 5% to 9%, and science from 15% to 26%; the state gap narrowed in each. Chelsea Middle School also had lower chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 (10%) than the Chelsea district (15%) and state (16%). SchoolDigger ranked it 328th of 378 schools, in the 13th percentile with one star, an improvement from 347th of 369 and the 6th percentile with zero stars in 2024–2025; its 2020–2021 ranking was 228th of 407, in the 44th percentile with two stars. For context, the student-teacher ratio was 17.8 in 2024–2025, and 82% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year.
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