Summary:
ZIP code 43072 contains exactly one middle school: Graham Middle School, a grades 6–8 campus with 362 students in Saint Paris, Ohio, operating within the Graham Local district. Because it is the only middle school in the area, this is a single-school profile rather than a comparison among local options — families in this ZIP are served by this one school for the middle grades.
Academically, Graham Middle School performs above Ohio averages in every reported subject and grade in both 2024–25 and 2025–26. Standouts include Algebra I, where 100% of test-takers scored proficient in both years (state: 61.6% in 2025–26), 6th-grade Mathematics at 71.8% (15.6 points above the state), and 7th-grade English Language Arts at 71.0% (8.3 points above). Results are mixed year over year: 6th-grade Math rose 7.9 points and 8th-grade Math rose 4.0 points, while 8th-grade Science fell from 82.0% to 68.8% and 6th-grade ELA dropped from 73.1% to 57.1%, leaving ELA 6 only 1.1 points ahead of the state. For most grade-level subjects, district figures closely match the school's, so those district comparisons are not truly independent.
Rank history shows a peak and a pullback: 63rd percentile with 3 stars in 2023–24, 74th percentile with 4 stars in 2024–25, and 64th percentile with 3 stars in 2025–26 — still solidly above average, but trending down. Chronic absenteeism is a watch item at 21.9%, which is 6.8 percentage points above the district's 15.1%. Contextual details include a 21.2:1 student-teacher ratio, 45.86% free/reduced-price lunch, and $9,012 per-student spending from 2018–19; these describe the operating environment but are not benchmarked against state or district figures here. Overall, this is a generally strong performer with exceptional Algebra I results and a few subject-level declines worth watching.
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