Summary:
Zip code 38358 contains just one middle school: Milan Middle School, serving grades 5–8 with 618 students in the Milan Special School District. The school has shown a steady decline in statewide ranking, dropping from the 72nd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 52nd percentile in 2025–2026, with its star rating falling from 4 stars to 3 stars.
Academically, Milan Middle School is math-strong but ELA-weak. It outperforms the state in mathematics (47.4% proficiency vs. 43% statewide) and posted an exceptional 80% proficiency in Algebra I, far above the district's 35.2% and the state's 32.3%. However, English Language Arts proficiency sits at just 31%, well below the state's 40.6%, and the school also trails state averages in science (41.5% vs. 46.9%) and social studies (46.4% vs. 51.4%). A clear positive is chronic absenteeism: at only 5.0%, it is far better than the district's 6.3% and the state's 18.3%.
Grade-level data reveals a concerning pattern of declining proficiency as students progress. Math falls from 52.2% in 5th grade to 37.4% in 8th grade, while ELA drops from 36.9% to 26.9% across the same grades. Year over year, the school saw declines in math (-4.8 points), science (-2.4), and social studies (-7.6), though ELA improved slightly (+1.9). Per-student spending is $13,018, and the district ranks 50th out of 141 districts in the state. The most pressing areas for attention are ELA instruction and reversing the downward grade-level trends to prevent learning gaps from compounding into high school.
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