Summary:
Crooksville Middle School is the only middle school in Crooksville Exempted Village, serving grades 5–8 to 317 students at 12400 Tunnel Hill Rd in Crooksville, Ohio, with a student-teacher ratio of 14.7 (2024–2025) and per-student spending of $10,113 (2018–2019).
Because it is the only school, there is no local peer to compare it against, so the standout story sits within individual grades. Fifth grade is the bright spot: in 2025–2026, ELA reached 72.5% proficient (state 70.4%) and science 63.3% (state 62.7%), and 5th grade improved in all three tested subjects. Eighth grade is the concern: math proficiency was 10.9% against 52.0% statewide, a 41.1-point gap, and ELA was 29.3% versus 58.3%. All three 8th grade subjects declined from the prior year, including science (61.3% to 48.0%). Algebra I swung from 76.5% proficient in 2024–2025, well above the state's 59.4%, to 54.5% in 2025–2026, below the state's 61.6%.
Overall, the school ranked 754 out of 1,046 in 2025–2026 — the 28th percentile with 1 star — down from 2 stars and the 34th percentile the year before. The district is also low-ranked, at 597 out of 773 (23rd percentile, 1 star), so the pattern is district-wide rather than isolated. Math is the weakest subject, averaging about 34% proficient versus 52–54% statewide. Chronic absenteeism stands at 27.0% at the school versus 22.9% district-wide, a substantial headwind. The free/reduced-lunch figure is blank and therefore unavailable, spending data dates to 2018–2019, and the Algebra I school-versus-district comparison may not be like-for-like because the district may include other test-takers.
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