Summary
Indian Creek Middle School Grades 7 & 8 is a 249-student school serving grades 7 and 8 in Mingo Junction, Ohio, a small Ohio River community in Jefferson County, where it operates as one of two middle schools in Indian Creek Local and shares its campus with the district's Grades 5 & 6 building.
On the whole, the school ranks 644th of 1,046 Ohio schools (38th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–26 — below its own district. Results are uneven rather than uniformly weak. Algebra I is a genuine standout: 100%, 100%, 100% and 95.8% proficiency over four reported years, against state rates in the 53–62% range, pointing to a very effective accelerated math pathway. Special education students have ranked at the 79th–85th percentile (4 stars) for three straight years, far above the school's overall standing. The weak spot is general-track Grade 7 math at 29.1%, 19.5 points below the state and a 16.8-point drop from the prior year, while Grade 8 math (50.0%), Grade 7 ELA (52.5%), Grade 8 ELA (53.4%) and Grade 8 science (54.2%) all trail Ohio averages by smaller margins. Chronic absenteeism, at 41.9%, is the highest among comparable local schools.
Comparisons help. Harding Middle School, 2.29 miles away in Steubenville, ranks 91st of 1,046 (5 stars) with Grade 7 math at 94.9% and absenteeism at 9.1% — on nearly identical per-pupil spending ($7,191 versus $7,156), so money and class size do not explain the gap. Edison Junior High School, the closest structural peer, is ranked almost identically; it is weaker in Grade 7 math and ELA but stronger in Grade 8. Notably, the same-campus Indian Creek Middle School Grades 5 & 6 posted 6th grade math of 20.8% the year before, meaning the 2025–26 7th-grade result was actually an 8.3-point gain over where that cohort started. Absenteeism also jumps from 35.8% in Grades 5 & 6 to 41.9% in Grades 7 & 8.
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