Summary
East Middle at PRBerry is a public middle school in Youngstown, Ohio, serving grades 6–8 with 298 students as part of the Youngstown City district. In 2025–2026, East Middle at PRBerry ranked 1,033rd of 1,046 Ohio schools — the 1st percentile, with 0 stars — which is lower than the district's own 8th-percentile ranking. That bottom-of-state position is not new: from 2020–2021 through 2025–2026, the school has ranked between the 1st and 3rd percentile every year shown.
Two patterns stand out most for parents. First, chronic absenteeism is severe: 73.6% of students were chronically absent in 2025–2026, compared with 56.7% in the district and the highest rate in the comparison group. The same-district peer Chaney Middle is nearly identical at 72.6%, while Rayen Early College Middle School is 32.1% and Poland Middle School is 10.9%. Second, test proficiency is very low across subjects and grades. In 2025–2026, the school's highest reported result was 13.3% in 8th grade English Language Arts, followed by 11% in 8th grade Science. Math was especially weak: 1.3% proficient in 6th grade, 1.2% in 7th grade, and 3.6% in 8th grade. Every reported subject and grade was below the district average and far below the state. Nearby schools post much higher results — for example, Austintown Middle School, Girard Junior High School, and Hubbard Middle School report proficiency well above East Middle's 1–13% range.
Where data are provided, subgroup rankings are also at the very bottom of the state, from female and male students to low socio-economic status students, so low performance is broad-based rather than limited to one group. Resource indicators do not show a shortage: the student-teacher ratio was 12.4 in 2024–2025 — lower than several higher-performing nearby schools — and per-student spending was $13,700 in 2018–2019, the highest among the nearby comparators (that figure is older, so compare it cautiously). Overall, East Middle presents a profile of extreme academic need and severe absenteeism, and its own district's Rayen Early College Middle shows that much stronger outcomes are possible in Youngstown.
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