Summary:
ZIP code 43078 is home to a single middle school — Urbana Junior High School, part of the Urbana City district — serving grades 6–8 to roughly 387 students in the Urbana area of Ohio. Because there is only one middle school in the ZIP code, there is no in-area comparison to make, so the most useful benchmarks are the district and the state. The surrounding context is one of high economic need: 63.05% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, the student-teacher ratio is 16.1:1, and chronic absenteeism stands at 19.5%, slightly above the district's 18.7%.
Urbana Junior High's clearest academic strength is Algebra I: 85.3% of test-takers reached proficiency in 2025–26 and 87.1% in 2024–25, far above the district (46.9% and 48.1%) and the state (61.6% and 59.4%). Because Algebra I in middle school usually involves a selected group of advanced students, that figure should not be read as representative of all sixth through eighth graders. Seventh grade math is a genuine bright spot as well, beating the state by 7.4 points in 2025–26 and 10.7 points in 2024–25, and eighth grade science came close to the state in 2025–26 (60.9% vs. 61.2%). The school's overall rank is stable at 2 stars and around the 40th percentile for three straight years, while the district sits at 1 star and the 28th percentile.
The challenges are concentrated in English language arts and in sixth grade. All three ELA grades came in below the state in both years, with sixth grade ELA the widest gap — 37.4% versus 56.0% in 2025–26, down from 43.1% while the state rose. Sixth grade math also slipped from 55.5% to 48.3%, moving from above the state to below it. Eighth grade posted large year-over-year gains — math rose from 22.8% to 39.0% and ELA from 37.7% to 48.2% — but both remain below state averages. Excluding Algebra I, the school's grade-level average (49.5%) trails the state (56.4%) and is close to the district (50.0%).
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