Summary:
Fayetteville City Schools, located in Fayetteville, Tennessee, has just one middle school — Fayetteville Middle School — serving grades 6 through 8 with an enrollment of 200 students. Since it is the district's only middle school, school-level results are effectively the same as district-level results in most categories, and there are no other local middle schools to compare against directly.
Fayetteville Middle School currently ranks 401st out of 594 Tennessee middle schools (32nd percentile) for 2025–2026, earning 2 stars after improving from 444th place (24th percentile, 1 star) the prior year. Proficiency rose in every tested subject year over year: math climbed from 25.6% to 30.1%, English language arts from 18.5% to 24.4%, science from 29.9% to 34.7%, and social studies from 36.1% to 42.0%. Social studies is the school's strongest subject at 42.0% proficient, though it still trails the state average of 51.4%. Chronic absenteeism is a bright spot at 11.7%, better than both the district (14.8%) and state (18.3%) averages. Per-pupil spending is $22,176.
Grade-level results show a consistent pattern: 6th graders outperform older students in every subject. In math, 6th-grade proficiency is 42.6%, falling to 25.9% in 7th grade and 18.5% in 8th grade. English language arts is the greatest concern overall at 24.4% proficiency, with 7th-grade ELA particularly low at just 11.1% — less than one-third of the state average. Science drops from 41.2% in 6th grade to 27.8% in 8th grade. While the school ranks in the 32nd percentile statewide, Fayetteville City Schools as a whole ranks 130th out of 141 Tennessee districts (8th percentile, 0 stars), meaning Fayetteville Middle School is performing above the typical school in its own district, even though academic outcomes remain below state averages overall.
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