Summary:
ZIP code 43119 contains exactly one middle-level school — Galloway Ridge Intermediate School, a grades 5–6 school with 705 students in the South-Western City district — so families here have no other public middle-level option within the same ZIP code.
Because there is only one school, the useful comparison is between Galloway Ridge and its district and state. In 2025–2026, every tested area — 5th-grade Science, 5th-grade Math, 6th-grade Math, 5th- and 6th-grade English Language Arts — scored below both district and state averages. The school average was about 48.6%, versus 54.4% for the district and 60.9% for the state, roughly 5.8 points below the district and 12.3 points below the state. The smallest district gaps were in 5th-grade Science and 5th-grade Math, both −2.9 points; the largest was 6th-grade ELA at −10.6 points (and −18.7 versus the state). The clearest concern is 6th-grade ELA, the lowest score at 37.3% proficiency, while 5th-grade ELA was the highest at 57.7%. There is also a real bright spot: all five tested areas improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, led by 6th-grade Math (+10.5 points) and 5th-grade ELA (+9.4 points). The school’s overall gain of about 6.5 points outpaced the district (about 2.8) and state (about 2.0).
Attendance is the school’s strongest relative indicator: chronic absenteeism was 26.6% in 2025–2026, compared with 32.1% for the district — 5.5 percentage points better. Context matters, too. In 2024–2025, 83.12% of students were eligible for free or reduced lunch, the student-teacher ratio was 17.4, and per-student spending was $8,140 (2018–2019). The district itself ranks 508 of 773 in Ohio (34th percentile). The takeaway for parents: steady improvement across every subject, better-than-district attendance, but proficiency that still trails district and state benchmarks, with 6th-grade ELA the area most in need of attention.
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