Summary:
Tennessee Colony, Texas, is home to a single middle school, Cayuga Middle, which serves grades 6 through 8 within the Cayuga Independent School District (Isd), a small rural community with 124 students enrolled.
Cayuga Middle stands out as a high-performing school, earning a 5-star rating and ranking in the top 7% of all Texas middle schools for the 2024-2025 school year. The school excels in core subjects, particularly Mathematics, where 7th graders scored 69.23% proficient—more than double the state average of 31.12%. Across all grades, math proficiency outperformed the state by 27 to 38 percentage points. Reading and Science also show strong results, with 8th graders achieving 78.26% and 71.74% proficiency, respectively, compared to state averages of 56.39% and 46.25%. The school benefits from a very low student-teacher ratio of 8.8:1 and high per-pupil spending of $15,858, which likely contributes to its academic success. However, Social Studies, while still above the state average, is the school's relative weakness at 60.87% proficiency.
Notably, Cayuga Middle showed dramatic year-over-year improvement from 2023-2024 to 2024-2025, with 6th-grade math proficiency jumping from 35.9% to 64.86%. However, preliminary 2025-2026 data indicates a decline, particularly in 6th-grade reading and math (both at 35.9%), causing the school's state ranking to drop from the 93rd to the 75th percentile. This could be an anomaly or a trend worth monitoring. With a 0% dropout rate and 41.13% of students economically disadvantaged, the school demonstrates that high investment and small class sizes can yield exceptional results, making it a standout choice for families in the area.
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