Summary:
Worthington City is home to five middle schools serving about 2,400 students in grades 6–8, except for Phoenix Middle School, which serves grades 7–8. Enrollment ranges from 154 students at Phoenix to 640 at Worthingway Middle School, and the district is ranked 169 of 773 in Ohio, placing it in the 78th percentile with 4 stars. Because that district-level rating is the same for every school, parents should look to each school's own rank history, test scores, and absenteeism to compare them.
Phoenix is the most consistently high-performing school, ranking 101 of 1,046 (90th percentile, 5 stars) in 2025–2026 after earning 5 stars in each of the two prior years. It posts the lowest student-teacher ratio at 10.6, leads in Math 7 (65.2) and Math 8 (87.3), and ties for the top Algebra I score. Kilbourne Middle School is close behind at the 88th percentile with the top Science 8, ELA 6, ELA 7, and ELA 8 scores. Perry Middle School is the improvement story, rising from the 59th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–2024 to the 77th percentile and 4 stars in 2025–2026, despite the highest free/reduced-lunch rate at 44.7%. McCord Middle School (83rd percentile) and Worthingway (77th percentile) round out the group.
Algebra I is a shared district strength, with all five schools scoring between 88.1 and 100, well above the district's 70.1 and the state's 61.6. Chronic absenteeism tracks with overall performance: Kilbourne (11.1%) and Phoenix (11.4%) have the lowest rates, while Worthingway has the highest at 17.4%. Some data is missing — Phoenix's free/reduced-lunch percentage and Perry's per-student spending are not available here, and spending figures date to 2018–2019 — so those gaps should be treated as unknown rather than as weaknesses.
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