Federal Hocking Middle School

Federal Hocking Middle School is a small public school serving roughly 185 students in grades 6–8 in Stewart, Ohio, a rural community in the Federal Hocking Local district. In 2025–26 it ranked 560th of 1,046 Ohio middle schools — the 46th percentile, with a 2-star rating. That is the school's highest percentile in the ranking history shown, and a clear step up from 33rd percentile in 2024–25 and 27th in 2021–22. The district itself ranks 541st of 773 Ohio districts.

Test results are mixed but mostly improving. The school is above the state average in 8th-grade math (59.1% vs. 52.0%) and 6th-grade ELA (58.8% vs. 56.0%), and close to it in 6th-grade math (54.9% vs. 56.2%). It trails the state in 8th-grade science (50.7% vs. 61.2%), 7th-grade math (42.6% vs. 48.6%), 7th-grade ELA (52.7% vs. 62.7%), and 8th-grade ELA (50.0% vs. 58.3%). Locally, Federal Hocking outperforms Nelsonville-York Junior High School, Meigs Middle School, and Trimble Junior High in most subjects, but lags Warren Middle School and Athens Middle School, especially in reading and science. Math 8 is a relative strength, even beating Warren's 49.2%.

Attendance has improved dramatically: chronic absenteeism is 22.9% in 2025–26, down from 49.4% in 2021–22, and better than the district's 26.9% and every nearby school except Warren and The Plains Intermediate School. Students from low-income families rank at the 60th percentile (3 stars), above the school's overall standing, while special education results swing widely year to year. Spending was $7,050 per student in 2018–19 — lower than most neighbors — with a student-teacher ratio of 11.5. Because the school is small, yearly results and subgroup scores can shift a lot, and free/reduced-lunch data are not available.