Summary:
Zip code 57225 has one middle school, Clark Middle School - 03, serving grades 6–8 and enrolling 72 students. Its results are the only local school results available for comparison. The clearest concern is grade 8 science: in 2025–2026, 11% of students were proficient, compared with 41% statewide—a gap of 30 percentage points.
Clark Middle School - 03 is both the top- and bottom-scoring school in this one-school list, so there is no local school-to-school comparison. Its strongest grade-level result was grade 6 ELA, with 60% proficient, 12 percentage points above the state’s 48%. Its weakest state comparison was grade 8 science, 30 points below the state. Across all grades, ELA proficiency was 46% and math was 37%; both were slightly below state results of 49% and 44%, respectively. The grade-level picture is uneven: grade 7 ELA was 8 points below the state, and grade 8 ELA was 25 points below.
Results improved in some subjects but declined in grade 8 science. All-grade ELA rose from 36% in 2024–2025 to 46% in 2025–2026, narrowing its state gap from 15 points to 3 points; math rose from 34% to 37%, narrowing its gap from 9 points to 7. Grade 8 science fell from 21% to 11%, and its state gap widened by 9 points. SchoolDigger lists the school at the 30th percentile with two stars in 2025–2026, compared with the 31st percentile the prior year and 20th percentile in 2023–2024. Context figures include a student-teacher ratio of 9.9 and 25% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was 6% in 2025–2026, versus 7% in the district and 20% statewide.
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