Summary:
Zip code 74036 has one middle school, Inola Middle School, serving grades 5–8 and 391 students, so families have one local option rather than several schools to compare. In 2025–2026, its all-grade proficiency was 16% in English Language Arts I, 16% in math, and 27% in science. The most important takeaway is that all three results were below Oklahoma’s, although science was closest: 27% versus 30%, compared with 16% versus 26% in ELA and 16% versus 25% in math.
Inola Middle School is both the top and bottom school in this ZIP code by default, since it is the only one; those results do not provide a meaningful local peer ranking. Science was its strongest subject relative to the state, while ELA had its largest gap: 10 points below Oklahoma. Compared with the Inola district, the school was 6 points higher in science, but 4 points lower in ELA and 6 points lower in math. SchoolDigger ranks it 290th of 378 schools, at the 23rd percentile, and gives it one star.
Results shifted unevenly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose 1 point, math fell 1 point, and science fell 4 points. The equal-weight average across the three subjects moved from 21% to 20%, while the average gap from the state widened from 6 to 7 points. SchoolDigger’s percentile has stayed near 22nd–23rd across the three listed years. Other context: the student-teacher ratio was 14.6 in 2024–2025, and 44% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 5.4% in 2025–2026, well below the state’s 15.9%. Because the ZIP code list contains only one school, it cannot show how Inola compares with local peers.
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