Summary:
There is only one middle school in East Guernsey Local, a rural district in Guernsey County, Ohio: Buckeye Trail Middle School. It serves grades 6–8 with 213 students at 65553 Wintergreen Rd in Lore City. Because it is the only middle school in the district, district-level test results are identical to the school's, and there is no other local school to compare it against. The school currently holds a 2-star rating and ranks 600th of 1,046 Ohio middle schools, in the 43rd percentile.
Buckeye Trail's results are mixed. The good news is mathematics in grades 6 and 7: 6th grade math is at 62.0% proficient versus 56.2% statewide, and 7th grade math is at 58.1% versus 48.6% statewide. Both improved over the prior year. The concerns are concentrated in 8th grade and in English language arts. Eighth grade science fell from 80.3% proficient in 2024–2025 to 35.1% in 2025–2026, which is 26.1 points below the state's 61.2%. Sixth grade ELA is at 40.8% (15.2 points below the state) and 8th grade ELA is at 50.0% (8.3 points below). Seventh grade ELA, at 60.3%, is close to the state's 62.7%. Chronic absenteeism is 24.5% at the school versus 18.4% across the district, meaning roughly one in four students misses enough school to be flagged.
Overall, the school shifted from averaging about 6 points above the state on reported tests in 2024–2025 to about 6 points below in 2025–2026, and its rank fell from 391st (62nd percentile, 3 stars) to 600th. The decline is driven mainly by the current 8th grade cohort and its science results rather than by every grade. With roughly 70 students per grade, single-year swings can be large, so tracking trends over several years is more informative. Free/reduced lunch data was not available, the spending figure of $11,886 dates to 2018–2019, and the 14.9 student-teacher ratio comes without a state benchmark.
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