Summary:
In zip code 25701, there is exactly one middle school, Huntington Middle School, which serves grades 6 through 8 and is part of the highly-rated Cabell County Schools district, ranking in the top 13% of all districts in West Virginia.
Huntington Middle School enrolls 601 students and has maintained a steady 3-star state ranking (64th out of 161 schools) over the past three years. The school offers a favorable student-teacher ratio of 11.3 and spends a substantial $12,429 per student. Overall proficiency is a mixed picture: English Language Arts (ELA) scores at 46.2% are close to the state average of 47.6%, but math proficiency at 33.1% lags behind both the district (42.8%) and state (39.4%). This suggests that while the school has solid resources, there is room for improvement in math instruction for the general student body.
The most striking finding is the exceptional performance of the 8th-grade cohort. In 8th grade, math proficiency jumps to 45.7%, far exceeding the 6th (25.5%) and 7th (27.6%) grade scores, and also beating the district (37.3%) and state (34.2%) averages. Science proficiency in 8th grade is 39.9%, well above the state average of 29.3%, and represents a dramatic turnaround from just 20.1% the previous year—nearly doubling in one year. The 8th-grade ELA score of 46.9% also tops the state average. This indicates that the school's approach becomes exceptionally effective by 8th grade, particularly in STEM subjects. The challenge ahead is replicating this success in the earlier grades, where math proficiency remains below state averages, to ensure all students benefit from the same level of achievement seen in the 8th grade.
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