Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 43019

ZIP code 43019 contains just one middle school: Fredericktown Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with about 280 students — roughly 93 per grade — and a student–teacher ratio of 15.5:1. It is the only middle school in the Fredericktown Local district’s ZIP footprint, so there is no neighboring school to compare it against; the meaningful benchmarks are Ohio as a whole and the school’s own recent history. In practice, this building is the district’s entire tested grade 6–8 population, which means the school’s scores and the district’s grade-level scores are identical.

Academically, the school beats the Ohio average on every reported test in both years of data — all 16 test administrations. Its strongest results are in 6th grade, where 76.1% of students were proficient in math (+19.9 points over the state) and 70.4% in English language arts (+14.4). Algebra I posted a perfect 100% proficiency two years running, 38.4 points above the state, though that is an accelerated course taken by a small, self-selected group rather than the full 8th-grade class — the same 8th graders scored 65.3% in grade-level math. The caveat: the school’s advantage is shrinking fast. Its average margin over the state fell from +15.9 points to +8.9 in a single year, and its state rank dropped from 209th of 1,036 (80th percentile, 4 stars) to 330th of 1,046 (68th percentile, 3 stars).

The decline is concentrated rather than building-wide. Eighth-grade math fell 12.1 points to 65.3%, 7th-grade ELA fell 11.7 points to 66.0%, and 8th-grade science fell 13.3 points to 66.7% — while 6th grade improved in both subjects and now posts the school’s top scores. Chronic absenteeism stands at 12.7%, essentially identical to the district’s 12.5%. Two important gaps: no free/reduced-lunch figure is reported, and the only spending data available is $7,117 per student from 2018–19, too old to say anything about current results. Parents should read this as a solid, above-average Ohio middle school with real strengths in 6th grade and accelerated math, and a clearly identified set of areas to watch in the upper grades.