Summary:
The San Juan District has one middle school, Albert R. Lyman Middle, serving grades 6–8 in Blanding, Utah. The school enrolls about 330 students, has a 17.9-to-1 student–teacher ratio, and serves a community where 61.21% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Because it is the district’s only middle school, there are no local school-to-school comparisons; the most useful information comes from its grade-level results, district comparisons, and state benchmarks.
Albert R. Lyman’s strongest academic area is science. In 2025–2026, proficiency was 50.7% in Grade 6, 38.6% in Grade 7, and 55.2% in Grade 8. The school exceeded district science results at every grade, and Grade 8 science was also slightly above the Utah average. Overall, the school performed better than the district in 8 of 9 available grade-and-subject comparisons, including all three English Language Arts grades, Grades 7 and 8 mathematics, and all science grades. Grade 8 was the strongest overall grade, with an average proficiency rate of 43.9% across the three subjects. However, results were below statewide averages in nearly every comparison, which helps explain the school’s current one-star rating and 18th-percentile district ranking.
The most important concern is Grade 6 mathematics, where only 14.5% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, down from 19.3% the previous year and below both district and state results. Mathematics performance improved in Grade 8, while science improved overall across the two years, suggesting some positive upper-grade momentum. Attendance is a notable strength: chronic absenteeism was 15.2%, well below the district’s 32.3% and Utah’s 23.8%. For families considering the school, the overall picture is mixed but clear: Albert R. Lyman shows strong local performance in science and several upper-grade subjects, while Grade 6 mathematics and the gap with statewide achievement levels remain the main areas to watch.
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