Summary:
Little Miami Local runs a single middle school — Little Miami Middle School, serving grades 6–8 in Morrow, Ohio, with 1,304 students (about 435 per grade). Because it is the district's only middle-level building, the district's entire middle-grades story comes from this one campus, and school and district results for grades 6–8 are effectively interchangeable. The district overall ranks 176th of 773 Ohio districts, about the 77th percentile, with 4 stars.
Little Miami Middle School is a genuinely high-performing school by external benchmarks. It has earned 4 stars in each of the last three years and remained in the top quintile of Ohio schools — 193rd of 1,046 in 2023-24, 206th of 1,036 in 2024-25, and 230th of 1,046 in 2025-26. In 2025-26 it beat the state average in every subject and grade tested: 8th grade science by 13.0 points, math by 16.5 to 20.9 points across grades 6–8, and English language arts by 8.7 to 9.9 points. End of Course results were perfect — 100% proficient in both Algebra I and Geometry — though these accelerated middle-school cohorts are small, so those numbers can swing sharply from year to year.
Other indicators look favorable: chronic absenteeism is 12.1%, below the district's 13.6%; 25% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch; and the student-teacher ratio is 20.8:1. Per-student spending of $7,473 dates to 2018-19, so treat it as historical context rather than a picture of current resources. The watch items are trends. The school's state percentile has drifted from 82nd to 80th to 78th, and 8th grade science (83.1 to 74.2, down 8.9) and 7th grade ELA (77.8 to 71.4, down 6.4) both fell while the state barely moved; 6th grade improved, with math up 9.7 points and ELA up 6.9. None of this threatens the 4-star rating yet, but it explains the rank move from 193rd to 230th.
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