Summary:
Springfield, Ohio has three public middle schools — Roosevelt Middle School, Hayward Middle School, and Schaefer Middle School — all serving grades 7 and 8 within the Springfield City School District, with 1,065 students combined. The district ranks 704 of 773 Ohio districts, in the 9th percentile with 0 stars, so these schools operate within a district that is already low-performing statewide.
Roosevelt is the standout: it has the best 2025–26 rank (854 of 1046, 18th percentile, 1 star), the highest regular-subject proficiency averages (27.2% in 2025–26 and 25.7% in 2024–25), and the lowest chronic absenteeism (35.2%). Hayward ranks lowest (943 of 1046, 10th percentile, 0 stars in all three years of rank history), with the lowest regular-subject averages (19.3% and 16.3%) and the highest chronic absenteeism (46.3%, nearly half its students). Schaefer sits in between (914 of 1046, 13th percentile, 1 star) but is the most volatile, holding the best 2023–24 rank of the three before a sharp drop and only partial recovery.
In regular subjects, all three fall far below the state — 8th grade math is 11.6% at Roosevelt, 14.3% at Hayward, and 6.5% at Schaefer, against a state average in the low 50s. Algebra I proficiency is much higher than 8th-grade math proficiency at every school, which likely reflects a selective group of students taking Algebra I early rather than a schoolwide math turnaround. Attendance tracks achievement, but resources do not: Hayward has the lowest student-teacher ratio (11.8) and the highest per-student spending ($8,153) yet the weakest results. Free/reduced lunch data was blank for all three schools.
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