Summary:
Middletown has one listed middle school, Gaudet Middle School, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 431 students. Its 2025–26 results are mixed: proficiency was above the state average in math and science, and nearly even with it in English language arts (ELA). The most important finding is that those schoolwide results conceal a sharp difference between grades in math: 8th grade stood out, while 7th grade lagged the state.
As the area’s only listed school, Gaudet Middle School is both the top and bottom school in the local list; there are no other local schools to compare. Overall, 36.1% of students were proficient in math, 4.2 percentage points above the state, and 37.9% in science, 6.8 points above; ELA was 32.7%, just 0.4 points below the state. The standout grade-level result was 8th-grade math at 50.7%, 20.5 points above the state’s 30.2%. By contrast, 7th-grade math was 21.1%, 6.8 points below the state. Gaudet was below the Middletown district in all three subjects, including by 8.7 points in ELA and 4.3 in math.
Recent results improved in math but declined in ELA and science: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, math rose 2.5 points, while ELA fell 7.5 and science fell 4.1. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking also moved down, from 21st of 64 schools (67th percentile) in 2023–24 to 29th of 68 (57th percentile) in 2025–26. The school reports a student–teacher ratio of 11 and a 2024–25 free/reduced-lunch rate of 39.91%; these figures provide context, not an explanation for the results. Since there is only one listed school and no 2024–25 state scores are supplied, local peer comparisons and changes relative to the state cannot be assessed.
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