Summary:
Vermilion Local contains exactly one middle-level school — Sailorway Middle School — a 511-student building in Vermilion, Ohio that serves an unusual grade span of 4 through 7, meaning it houses two elementary grades and stops before 8th grade. Because it is the district's only middle school, every school-level test result is identical to the Vermilion Local district figure, so there is no within-district peer to compare against. The Vermilion Local district ranks 277th of 773 districts (about the 64th percentile, 3 stars), while Sailorway Middle School ranks 441st of 1,046 schools (about the 58th percentile, 3 stars).
Academically, Sailorway Middle School is solidly above average: it beats the state in 8 of 10 reported test areas and in every math grade. Fourth-grade math reached 82.9% proficient (state 67.3%), fifth-grade math 75.6% (state 59.1%), and fifth-grade ELA 80.9% (state 70.4%). Algebra I shows 100% proficient for two years running, far above the district's roughly 71% and the state's roughly 60% — though in a grades 4–7 building that course is typically taken by a small group of advanced students, so it is a bright spot rather than a picture of the whole school.
The weak spots are concentrated in upper-grade reading. Sixth-grade ELA came in at 55.2% versus the state's 56.0%, and seventh-grade ELA at 61.0% versus 62.7% — the only two areas below state average. Seventh-grade ELA also fell sharply from 72.4% the prior year, and sixth-grade math jumped from 48.5% to 65.1%; both compare different groups of students, not the same children tracked over time. Notably, the school's percentile rank slipped from 75 to 61 to 58 over three years even as its own scores stayed roughly flat to slightly better. Chronic absenteeism is 20.0% — about 1 in 5 students — though that is below the district's 22.7%, and only one year of attendance data exists, so no trend can be established.
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