Summary:
Zip code 26757 is home to a single middle school, Romney Middle School, which serves grades 6 through 8 in the rural community of Romney, West Virginia, and is part of the Hampshire County Schools district.
For parents considering this area, Romney Middle School is showing a strong upward trajectory. The school improved its state ranking dramatically, jumping from the 38th percentile in the 2024-2025 school year to the 61st percentile in 2025-2026, now ranking 62nd out of 161 schools in West Virginia. This positive momentum is also reflected in 8th-grade science scores, which rose from 17.4% to 23.3% proficiency in just one year. The school's clear strength is English Language Arts, where 50% of students are proficient—a rate that beats both the district (47.3%) and the state (47.6%). However, mathematics is a weaker area, with only 35.5% proficiency, which is below the district's 39.4% average. A notable pattern is the grade-level slide: 6th graders outperform 8th graders in both subjects, with math proficiency dropping from 41.8% to 30.1% and ELA from 50.9% to 45.6% across those grades. This suggests that students may struggle as coursework becomes more challenging, and it points to a potential need for targeted support in the later middle school years.
With an enrollment of 364 students and a student-teacher ratio of 14.1, the school offers a relatively personalized learning environment. Spending per student is $11,566, though this data is from 2018-2019 and may be outdated. While the school outperforms the state in ELA, it lags behind its own district in math at every grade level, indicating that the district may have stronger math resources that the school could leverage. Overall, Romney Middle School is a school on the rise, with notable academic strengths in reading and writing, but with clear opportunities for improvement in mathematics and in supporting students as they progress through middle school.
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