Summary:
ZIP code 37938 in Knoxville, Tennessee, is home to one middle school: Halls Middle School, which serves 945 students in grades 6–8 as part of Knox County Schools. Because there are no other middle schools in the ZIP code, this profile compares Halls directly against district and state benchmarks rather than local peer schools.
Halls Middle School carries a stable 3-star rating, currently ranked 225 out of 594 Tennessee middle schools (62nd percentile), which places it above its district, Knox County Schools, sitting at the 45th percentile among Tennessee districts. Social Studies is the school's clearest strength at 57.4% proficiency, 6 points above the state average. The school also posts an eye-catching 72.5% Algebra I proficiency, though that figure includes high school test-takers in the district and state comparisons. Among 8th-grade Algebra I students specifically, Halls' 72.2% proficiency trails the district's 83.2% and the state's 88.3%. The bigger concern is general 8th-grade math, where only 24.4% of students are proficient, far below the state's 38.3% and the school's own 6th-grade math rate of 41.1%. ELA sits at 36.7% proficiency, below the state's 40.6%.
Chronic absenteeism is a red flag at Halls Middle School, with 25.2% of students chronically absent, exceeding the district's 19.4% and the state's 18.3%. On a positive note, the school is trending upward: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, math rose 2 points, ELA rose 3.4 points, science rose 5.7 points, and Algebra I jumped 11 points. For parents, Halls offers strong Social Studies instruction and a pathway that routes advanced 8th graders into Algebra I, but the elevated absenteeism and weak general 8th-grade math cohort are challenges worth monitoring.
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