Summary:
Middle schools in Licking Heights Local come down to two buildings — Summit Station Intermediate (grades 5–6, 836 students) and Licking Heights Middle School (grades 7–8, 820 students) — together serving 1,656 students in Ohio. The district overall sits at the 55th percentile with 3 stars, though Licking Heights Middle School's own school-level ratings have run lower: 45th percentile and 2 stars in 2025–2026, up slightly from 40th percentile in 2023–2024.
Summit Station Intermediate looks stronger on the things parents often watch first. Its chronic absenteeism is 8.8%, well below the district's 14.4% and Licking Heights Middle's 14.6%. In its listed grade band, its 5–6 core proficiency average is about 63.0%, modestly above the state's roughly 60.9%, with 5th-grade science (70.3%) and 6th-grade math (61.8%) both above state rates. It also spends more per student ($6,536 in 2018–2019 versus $5,193) and has a lower student-teacher ratio (17.6 versus 19.3). One caution: Summit Station also reports 7th- and 8th-grade results — including 97.5% ELA 7 and 91.7% Math 8 in 2025–2026 — even though it is listed as grades 5–6, so those figures should be verified before being treated as school-wide outcomes.
At Licking Heights Middle School, advanced math is a clear bright spot: Geometry and Algebra I end-of-course exams both reached 100% proficiency in 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, far above district and state rates. Grade-level results are much more uneven. In 2025–2026, 7th-grade math was just 27.4% proficient (state: 48.6%) and 8th-grade science 50.8% (state: 61.2%), giving the school a 7–8 core average of about 51.4% — below both the district (~53.4%) and the state (~56.6%). Some trends are improving, with 8th-grade math rising from 53.2% to 61.9% and 8th-grade ELA from 47.3% to 57.0%, while 7th-grade math slipped from 30.5% to 27.4%.
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