Summary
McCormick Middle School is a 6–8 school serving 267 students in Huron, Ohio, a small lakeshore community in the Huron City Schools district. It is a consistent state-level high performer: in 2025-2026 it ranked 198th of 1,046 Ohio middle schools (81st percentile, 4 stars), and it beat the state in all seven tested grade-level measures by about 15 points on average. Advanced math is a standout, with Algebra I and Geometry proficiency at 100% (district 82.5% and 80.3%; state 61.6% and 43.3%), though these cohorts are very small, so view this as a top-of-scale pipeline rather than a precise 100%. The school also reports a low 14.4 students-per-teacher ratio (2024-2025) and $8,393 per-student spending in 2018-2019.
Among ten nearby middle schools, McCormick is third-strongest in 2025-2026, behind Danbury and Bellevue. Its 6th grade math (80.8%) is the highest in the comparison set, and 6th grade ELA (74.7%) trails only Danbury. Its student-teacher ratio beats Bellevue, Briar, Edison, Danbury, Firelands, Sailorway, and Western Reserve, and its chronic absenteeism (11.8%) is far below Sandusky (34.7%), Norwalk (26.8%), Sailorway (20.0%), League (15.4%), and Western Reserve (14.9%). Where it trails: 7th grade math (56.9%) is its weakest relative result, behind Danbury (81.8%), Firelands (65.6%), Bellevue (63.3%), and Sailorway (52.6% on a 4–7 grade span).
Chronic absenteeism fell from 24.5% in 2021-2022 to 11.8% in 2025-2026, though it is now slightly above the district’s 9.8%. Recent academic trends softened: 8th grade science moved 92.9% → 88.2% → 75.8%, 8th grade math 87.4% → 78.0% → 70.2%, and overall rank 154th → 142nd → 198th. Low-income students rank 74th percentile, close to the school’s overall 81st, with 33.7% qualifying for free/reduced lunch. Female students rank 86th–92nd percentile versus male students at 75th–81st, a stable gap. One special-education ranking (2022-2023) was 30th percentile (1 star), a flag for further investigation.
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