Middle Schools in Independence Local

Middle Schools located in Independence Local in Ohio are served by a single school: Independence Middle School, which enrolls 299 students in grades 5–8 at 6111 Archwood Rd, Independence, OH 44131-4901. Because it is the only middle school in the district, the most useful comparisons are between this school and the state of Ohio, as well as its own performance from year to year. The school and its district both hold 5-star ratings, and Independence Local ranks 44th out of 773 districts, at the 94th percentile.

Independence Middle School has ranked in the top 5–7% of Ohio middle schools in each of the last three reported years: 55th of 1,046 in 2025–2026, 41st of 1,036 in 2024–2025, and 75th of 1,046 in 2023–2024. In 2025–2026, every reported test area exceeded the state proficiency rate, from 6th-grade math at 63.9% (state: 56.2%) to 8th-grade math at 94.0% (state: 52.0%). Algebra I proficiency was 100% in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, and the overall non-Algebra proficiency average was 84.1% in 2025–2026 versus the state's 58.7% — roughly 25 points above the state.

Performance is broadly stable overall, dipping only slightly from 84.7 to 84.1 between the two reported years. The biggest gains were in 8th-grade math (+7.5 points), 7th-grade ELA (+5.5), and 8th-grade science (+5.4). The clearest watch item is 6th-grade math, which fell from 87.0% to 63.9% — still above the state, but a sharp drop. Chronic absenteeism is 6.4%, lower than the district's 9.0%. Free/reduced lunch is 11.04% and the student-teacher ratio is 13.8; per-student spending of $14,921 is from 2018–2019 and is historical.