Summary:
ZIP code 74955 has one middle school, Sallisaw Middle School, serving grades 6–8, with 407 students. Since there is no other school in the list, families cannot compare it with nearby middle schools. In 2025–2026, its English Language Arts I proficiency was slightly above the state result, while Mathematics and Science were below it. The most pronounced concern is chronic absenteeism: 32% of students were chronically absent, compared with 16% statewide.
Sallisaw Middle School is the only school to assess, so there is no local top or bottom school; its strongest subject relative to the state was English Language Arts I, at 27% versus 26%. That advantage appeared in each grade: sixth grade was 33% versus 25% statewide, seventh was 27% versus 23%, and eighth was 22% versus 20%. Mathematics and Science were the clearest academic weaknesses overall, both 5 points below the state—20% versus 25% in Mathematics and 25% versus 30% in Science. Mathematics results varied by grade, from even with the state in seventh grade to 9 points below in sixth.
Results improved overall from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, but not in every subject: English Language Arts I rose from 23% to 27%, Mathematics from 15% to 20%, and Science slipped from 26% to 25%. Across the three subjects, the equal-weight school–state gap narrowed from 6 points to 3, though Science moved 1 point farther behind. SchoolDigger ranked the school 171st of 378, at the 55th percentile, in 2025–2026; its listed percentile was 38 in each of the prior two years, a separate measure from subject proficiency. The student-teacher ratio was 13.7:1, and 66% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. These figures provide context, not an explanation for results.
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