Summary:
Martins Ferry City has one middle school in this data set: Martins Ferry Middle School, serving grades 5–8 with 434 students at 5000 Ayers Limestone Rd in Martins Ferry, Ohio. It belongs to the Martins Ferry City district, which ranks 459th of 773 Ohio districts, in the 41st percentile with 2 stars. The school itself is moving up: it climbed from 607th of 1046 schools in 2023–24 to 563rd in 2024–25 and 524th in 2025–26, rising from the 42nd to the 46th to the 50th percentile, and its rating improved from 2 stars to 3 stars. That said, the 50th percentile means it currently sits right at the middle of ranked Ohio schools.
Its strongest results are in science and Algebra I. Fifth-grade science was 75.3% proficient versus 62.7% statewide, and eighth-grade science was 70.9% versus 61.2%. Algebra I stood at 83.3% proficient, well above the district's 68.6% and the state's 61.6%, though that reflects a select group of advanced students rather than all eighth graders. Grades 6 and 7 math posted the biggest gains, with sixth grade rising from 33.3% to 59.0% and seventh grade from 32.9% to 56.4%, both now above state averages. The clear concern is eighth-grade math: only 11.1% were proficient against 52% statewide, down from 33.7% the prior year. English language arts is mixed—seventh grade was strong at 70.5%, but fifth grade slipped from 83.2% to 73.2%, sixth grade stayed below state, and eighth grade fell to 50.6%, under the state's 58.3%.
On other measures, the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 20.8% is lower than the district's 24.5%, though about one in five students was still chronically absent. The student-teacher ratio was 24.1 to 1 in 2024–25, suggesting large classes. Per-student spending of $8,266 comes from 2018–19, too old to reflect current resources, and free/reduced lunch data is unknown. Overall, this is an improving school with real strengths in science, Algebra I, and middle-grade math, held back by a few very weak grade-level results—especially eighth-grade math.
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