Summary:
Two middle schools serve Medina City School District — Claggett Middle School and A. I. Root Middle School — both covering grades 6 through 8 and together enrolling about 1,414 students in similarly sized buildings (724 and 690). The Medina City School District is itself a strong district, ranked 133rd of 773 statewide (83rd percentile, 4 stars), and both schools score above the Ohio average in every tested area, including grade-8 Science, grades 6–8 Math and English Language Arts, and the high-school-level Algebra I and Geometry end-of-course exams.
A. I. Root Middle School is the academic standout: rated 5 stars for three straight years while the district holds 4, it ranked 100th of 1,046 middle schools statewide in 2025-2026 (90th percentile) — about 106 places ahead of its neighbor. Root leads on 6 of the 7 grade-level tests and posts the file's top results, 87.0% proficient in grade-8 ELA (state 58.3%) and 84.9% in grade-8 Math (state 52.0%). The widest gaps between the two schools are grade-8 Math (13.0 points), grade-7 Math (11.3) and grade-8 ELA (11.7). Root also enrolls 19.28% low-income students versus 34.12% at Claggett, and reports slightly lower chronic absenteeism (15.0% vs. 16.5%).
Claggett Middle School is rated 4 stars, ranked 206th of 1,046 (80th percentile, up from 231st), and beats state averages everywhere — grade-8 Science by 20.1 points, for example. Its weak spot is grade-7 Math at 59.2%, the lowest non-end-of-course result for either school, a 13.0-point drop from last year and only 10.6 points above the state. Both schools hit 100% in Geometry. Notably, Claggett spends $407 more per student yet trails Root. Watch grade-7 Math at both schools next cycle.
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