Summary:
Kent City is home to a single middle school, Stanton Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 616 students at 1175 Hudson Rd in Kent, Ohio. Because Kent City has just one middle-level building, the school's numbers and the district's numbers are nearly mirrors of each other, so the most useful comparison for parents is how Stanton stacks up against Ohio as a whole — and on that measure it comes out ahead on every test reported.
Stanton's standout results sit in the upper grades and in math. Its Algebra I End-of-Course exam reached 100% proficient, far above Ohio's 61.6% — though that exam is taken by a select group of accelerated students, not the whole 8th grade. Among full-grade tests, 7th-grade English Language Arts led the way at 81.2% versus the state's 62.7%, 8th-grade ELA hit 72.9% versus 58.3%, 7th-grade math reached 65.0% versus 48.6%, and 8th-grade science posted 73.4% versus 61.2%. The school ranks 266th of 1046 Ohio middle schools — about the 75th percentile with 4 stars — after jumping from 387th two years earlier and holding that higher ground since.
The area to watch is 6th grade. Its ELA score fell 9.3 points year over year, the largest drop of any test, and 6th-grade math slipped 5.1 points; both now sit only modestly above the state average and barely above the district. Meanwhile 8th-grade math climbed 7.2 points. Chronic absenteeism stands at 23.0% — roughly one in four students — slightly better than the district's 24.3%, but only one year of data is available, so no trend can be drawn. About half of students (50.32%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the only spending figure, $12,677 per student, dates to 2018-19 and should be treated as historical context rather than a current measure.
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