Summary:
Zip code 43068 contains two middle schools, both part of the Reynoldsburg City district and both serving grades 6–8: Waggoner Road Junior High with 924 students and Baldwin Road Junior High School with 781 students, together enrolling 1,705. The district overall ranks 582 of 773 Ohio districts, at the 25th percentile with 1 star, so both schools sit in a similar wider context — yet their individual results differ sharply.
Waggoner is the stronger of the two. In 2025–26 it ranks 651 of 1,046 (38th percentile, 2 stars) against Baldwin's 807 of 1,046 (23rd percentile, 1 star), and its rank has held steadier over three years while Baldwin's has declined each year. Waggoner's chronic absenteeism is 24.2%, well below the district's 32.6% and far below Baldwin's 47.0%, where nearly half of students were chronically absent. Waggoner outscored Baldwin in 7 of 8 assessments in 2025–26 and was at or above the district in all 8; the largest gaps were ELA 6 (+24.7 points), Science 8 (+22.3) and ELA 8 (+18.8). Both schools serve high-poverty populations, with free/reduced-price lunch rates of 67.32% at Waggoner and 71.19% at Baldwin.
One shared bright spot is Integrated Math I: Waggoner scored 87.2% and Baldwin 100%, compared with 40.8% district and 34.4% state — though the number of students tested is not shown, so Baldwin's 100% may reflect a small or selective group. Grade-level math is the weak area at both schools: Waggoner's Math 7 (22.5%) and Baldwin's Math 7 (21.9%) and Math 8 (23.6%) fall far below state averages. Baldwin is below the district in 7 of 8 tests, suggesting more concentrated academic and attendance needs.
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