Summary:
ZIP code 43113 (Circleville, Ohio) has exactly one public middle school: Circleville Middle School, at 360 Clark Dr, serving grades 6 through 8 with 476 students in the Circleville City district. Because there is only one middle school in the area, there is no in‑zip peer to compare against — the meaningful benchmarks are the district and the state of Ohio.
The school's brightest spot is Algebra I: 100% of test‑takers were proficient in 2025‑26, well above Ohio's 61.6%, and 93.5% the year before, so this is a consistent result rather than a one‑year fluke. That said, Algebra I is a small, selective, accelerated group, so it shouldn't be read as a school‑wide math result. The one general‑education test where the school beats the state is 8th grade math, at 53.8% versus Ohio's 52%. The weak spots are concentrated in the upper grades: 7th grade math sits at 19.1%, which is 29.5 points below the state's 48.6% and the largest negative gap in the data; 8th grade ELA is 38.8% and 8th grade science 41.8%, each roughly 19 points below the state, and both dropped sharply from the prior year. Sixth grade is the steadiest performer, with both subjects improving slightly but still landing below state averages.
Overall, Circleville Middle is rated in the lower third of Ohio middle schools — 33rd percentile with 2 stars — yet that still places it above its own district's rating of 1 star (24th percentile). Chronic absenteeism is 21.1%, modestly better than the district's 22.7%, though it still means about one in five students misses enough school to be flagged. Two context gaps are worth knowing: the free/reduced‑lunch percentage is not reported, and the per‑student spending figure is seven years old, so the fuller picture behind these results isn't available in this data.
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