Summary:
Orange City has just one middle school: Ballard Brady Middle School, a grades 6–8 school in Pepper Pike, OH with 461 students, part of the Orange City district. Because it is the only middle school in this area, there are no other local schools to compare it against, so the analysis looks at how it performs relative to its district, the state, and its own past years.
Ballard Brady stands out on its own merits. In 2025-2026 it ranked 26th out of 1,046 schools, placing it in the 98th percentile with 5 stars, and the district ranked 29th out of 773 districts, in the 96th percentile. The school's rank has climbed steadily: 62nd, then 47th, then 26th over three reported years, moving from the 94th to the 98th percentile. Test scores are far above Ohio averages. In 2025-2026, the smallest gap between the school and the state was +21.5 points in 7th-grade math; the largest was +56.7 points in Geometry. Notably, the school's lowest score that year, 70.1% in 7th-grade math, was still above the state's highest reported score of 67.0% in Biology. Biology and Algebra I reached 100% in both years, and Geometry hit 100% in 2025-2026, though these End-of-Course exams may be taken by a subset of students, so 100% should not be read as representing every 8th grader.
Math improved across all three grade levels, with gains of +7.0 points in 6th grade, +4.7 in 7th, and +6.0 in 8th; 7th-grade math remains the relative soft spot despite being well above state proficiency. ELA was mixed: 8th grade rose 6.2 points while 6th and 7th dipped slightly. Chronic absenteeism is 4.6%, well below the district's 8.3%. The school reports a 12.8:1 student-teacher ratio and 14.53% free/reduced lunch participation in 2024-2025, with per-student spending of $21,057 in 2018-2019 — a dated figure best treated as historical context.
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