Summary:
Chamberlain has one middle school, Chamberlain Junior High - 02, serving grades 6–8 with 208 students. Its 2025–26 results show that math is the clearest concern: proficiency was 29%, compared with 44% statewide, a 15-point gap.
With only one school, there is no meaningful local top-to-bottom comparison; the same school is both highest and lowest by default. Its strongest state-relative result was grade 8 ELA, essentially level with the state at 51% versus 52%. In contrast, math was below the state in all three grades: grade 6 was 26% versus 42%, grade 7 was 25% versus 44%, and grade 8 was 36% versus 43%; grade 7 had the largest gap, at 19 points. All-grade ELA was closer to the state than math, at 46% versus 49%, and was 1 point above the 45% district result in the Chamberlain School District 07-1. Grade 8 science was also below the state, at 27% versus 41%.
Results declined from 2024–25 to 2025–26, especially in math: ELA fell 4 points, from 50% to 46%, while math fell 9 points, from 38% to 29%; the math gap with the state widened by 9 points. Grade 8 science dropped 14 points, from 41% to 27%, while the state result fell 2 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school 114th of 151 in 2025–26, at the 25th percentile with one star; its 2024–25 ranking was 118th of 246, at the 52nd percentile with three stars, though the different ranking pools make this an imperfect year-to-year comparison. For context, chronic absenteeism was 23%, above the 20% state figure but below the district’s 25%. In 2024–25, the student–teacher ratio was 11.6 and 51% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible.
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