Summary:
There is one middle school in the Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City district: Brookside Middle School, serving grades 7–8 with 259 students. The district is rated 3 stars and ranks 377 out of 773 Ohio districts, placing it at the 51st percentile. Because Brookside is the only middle school, it represents the district’s middle-level performance.
Brookside’s strongest academic area is STEM. Algebra I End-of-Course proficiency was 100% in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, far above the district and state. Math and science scores are consistently above state averages: in 2025–2026, 7th-grade math was 58.6% (state 48.6%), 8th-grade math was 59.8% (state 52.0%), and 8th-grade science was 63.9% (state 61.2%). English Language Arts is weaker. 8th-grade ELA fell from 61.9% in 2024–2025 to 50.4% in 2025–2026, which is below the state’s 58.3%. 7th-grade ELA was 62.4% in 2025–2026, slightly below state. The school’s overall rank dropped from 192 out of 1,046 (82nd percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024 to 456 out of 1,046 (56th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026.
Other important metrics: chronic absenteeism was 26.4% in 2025–2026, higher than the district’s 24.1%. Nearly half of students (49.03%) received free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio is 19:1. Per-student spending was $8,602 in 2018–2019. In summary, Brookside has real strengths in math and science, especially Algebra I, but faces challenges in ELA and attendance. Parents may want to ask about literacy support and attendance interventions.
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