Summary:
Zip code 37128 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is home to a single middle school, Blackman Middle School, which serves 1,727 students in grades 6-8 through Rutherford County Schools. With no other middle school in the zip code for direct comparison, the most useful benchmarks are the district and state averages. Blackman comfortably beats the state average in all four tested subjects and has earned a 4-star rating from the state, ranking 112th out of 594 Tennessee middle schools (81st percentile).
Among the school's standout strengths, 6th graders perform particularly well. In math, 57.6% of 6th graders are proficient, well above the district's 55.0% and the state's 40.1%. In ELA, 53.4% of 6th graders are proficient, also ahead of the district (50.5%) and state (39.8%). Science is the most consistent subject across grades, holding steady at roughly 53-54% proficiency in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, and it exceeds the district in the two later grades. Chronic absenteeism is also a bright spot: only 10.3% of students are chronically absent, compared to 18.3% statewide.
The main challenge is a clear downward trend as students progress. Math proficiency falls from 57.6% in 6th grade to 44.0% in 8th grade, a 13.6-point drop that is steeper than the district's 5.9-point decline. ELA follows a similar pattern, slipping from 53.4% to 41.0%. The most notable gap is 8th grade Social Studies, where only 45.9% of Blackman students are proficient versus 52.8% in the district. Overall proficiency also slipped year over year in Science (-1.6 points) and Social Studies (-3.4 points), even though Math and ELA improved. These factors contributed to a slight state ranking dip from 92nd to 112th, but Blackman remains a dependable, above-average option for families in 37128.
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