Summary:
ZIP code 43021 has exactly one middle school — Berkshire Middle School in Galena, Ohio — serving grades 6–8 with 883 students as part of Olentangy Local, so there are no local school-to-school comparisons; the useful benchmarks are the district and the state.
Berkshire Middle School is a consistently top-tier Ohio middle school. It earned 5 stars in all three reported years and ranked 51st of 1,046 schools (95th percentile) in 2025–2026, 35th of 1,036 (97th percentile) in 2024–2025, and 43rd of 1,046 (96th percentile) in 2023–2024. Its district, Olentangy Local, is itself highly ranked at 57th of 773 districts (93rd percentile, 5 stars). Every reported Ohio State Tests result far exceeds the state average — in 2025–2026 by roughly 22 to 57 percentage points. The largest gaps were in End-of-Course math: Geometry at 100% proficiency (56.7 points above state) and Algebra I at 100% (38.4 points above state) in both years. Those 100% figures likely reflect a select group of students in accelerated math pathways rather than the full 6–8 population. Standouts also include Science 8 (89.1%) and Math 8 (73.9%), both above district and state, and ELA 7, which rose 4.6 points to 91.0% and moved above the district average.
Against its own district, Berkshire Middle School was slightly behind in 6th-grade math, 7th-grade math, 6th-grade ELA, and 8th-grade ELA in 2025–2026, with gaps of 0.6 to 4.1 points — modest, given how strong Olentangy Local is. Science 8, Math 8, and ELA 7 all beat the district. Several areas declined year over year (Math 8 by 6.9 points, ELA 8 by 5.2, ELA 6 by 5.0), yet none fell below the state average. Chronic absenteeism was 7.5% versus 9.2% for the district, a positive sign. Free/reduced lunch was 10.99% in 2024–2025, and the only spending figure, $7,396 per student, dates to 2018–2019 and is too old to draw current conclusions from.
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