Summary:
Middletown, Ohio is home to 18 schools enrolling roughly 8,993 students across 8 districts and operators, serving grades from early childhood through high school. Eleven schools are elementary (4,792 students, about 53% of enrollment), two are middle schools (1,314 students), and five are high schools (2,887 students). The largest operator is Middletown City, with 9 schools and 5,520 students — about 61% of all enrollment — followed by Madison Local (3 schools, 1,491 students) and Lakota Local (1 school, 655 students). The remaining schools are charter, alternative, and vocational settings.
Academic results divide sharply. Madison Junior High is the strongest school in the set — 71st percentile, 4 stars — with above-state results in nearly every subject, including Algebra I End of Course at 95.7 versus 61.6. Madison Elementary (66th percentile, 3 stars) posts strong math results in grades 3–5, and Madison High School has the highest graduation rate in the list at 99.1%. Wyandot Early Childhood School, part of the highest-ranked district, Lakota Local (78th percentile, 4 stars), has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 10.8%.
Most Middletown City schools (a 15th-percentile district) fall between the 7th and 34th percentiles. Marshall High School is the most extreme case: 98.0% chronic absenteeism, 37.2% graduation, and test proficiency in the single digits or low teens in Algebra I, Geometry, and English II. Rosa Parks Elementary is at the 7th percentile with 46.7% chronic absenteeism, and Middletown High School reports 45.2% chronic absenteeism and below-state results in every 2025-26 End of Course subject. Bright spots exist, including Mayfield Elementary School and Miller Ridge Elementary School, though both remain below state in most subjects. Free/reduced lunch data is blank for most schools and spending figures date to 2018-19, so resource comparisons are limited.
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