Summary:
ZIP code 82633 has one listed middle school, Douglas Middle School, serving grades 6–8 in Converse County School District #1. Its 2025–2026 averages across grades were above the state in ELA (63.3% versus 59.4%) and math (57.2% versus 54.6%), but its grade 8 science result was substantially lower than the state’s. The most important takeaway is that results vary sharply by grade and subject: strong grade 7 ELA contrasts with a notable grade 8 science shortfall.
Douglas’s standout result was grade 7 ELA, where 79.4% were proficient, 22.9 percentage points above the state’s 56.5%. Grade 8 math was another strength at 62.0%, 8.1 points above the state. The clearest weakness was grade 8 science: 37.2% proficient, 10.9 points below the state’s 48.1%. Grade 6 ELA (54.0%) and grade 6 math (53.5%) were also below their state results, by 6.8 and 3.4 points, respectively. There are no other listed schools in the ZIP code for a local school-to-school comparison.
Across the two years of test results, the overall gap versus the state improved slightly, but progress was uneven: the average of the seven grade-subject results was 0.8 points above the state in 2024–2025 and 1.2 points above in 2025–2026. Grade 7 ELA rose 19.8 points, while grade 8 science fell 7.2 points. Separately, SchoolDigger’s ranking moved from 28th of 74 schools (62nd percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024 to 41st of 76 (46th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026. As context, the school reported a student-teacher ratio of 11 and 38.3% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025; these figures describe the school but do not explain its test results.
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