Summary:
ZIP code 43140 contains three schools classified as middle schools — London MIddle School (grades 6–8, 493 students) in London City, and Madison-Plains Intermediate School (grades 4–6, 269 students) plus Madison-Plains Junior High (grades 7–8, 169 students) in Madison-Plains Local — together serving about 931 middle-grade students. Because the schools cover different grade spans, comparisons are imperfect but still useful.
Madison-Plains Intermediate School is the strongest performer right now: it scores above the Ohio state average in every reported 2025–26 subject, including 4th-grade ELA at 74.2% versus the state's 61.8% and 6th-grade math at 64.7% versus 56.2%. It also has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 12.5% and the smallest classes, with a student–teacher ratio of 17.9. Its reported free/reduced-lunch rate of 98.88% makes those results especially notable, though the figure may reflect district-wide eligibility. Madison-Plains Junior High remains above the state in 8th-grade science (74.0% vs. 61.2%) and 7th-grade math (65.3% vs. 48.6%), but it has slipped from the 81st percentile with 4 stars to the 64th percentile with 3 stars, and 8th-grade math (48.2%) now trails the state's 52.0%. Its free/reduced-lunch rate is blank in the source and should be treated as unknown.
London MIddle School is the largest school and faces the biggest challenges: a student–teacher ratio of 30.8, far above the other two schools, chronic absenteeism of 23.6%, and results below the state in nearly every core test, including 6th-grade math at 35.9% versus 56.2%. Both London and Madison-Plains Junior High report 100% Algebra I proficiency, but this likely reflects small advanced-math cohorts and does not offset low grade-level math scores at London. Overall, Madison-Plains Local ranks at the 66th percentile with 3 stars versus London City at the 39th percentile with 2 stars.
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