Summary:
ZIP code 43205 on Columbus's Near East Side contains exactly one middle school in this data set: Columbus City Preparatory School for Girls, at 1390 Bryden Road. It serves grades 6–8 with 196 students and a favorable 13:1 student-to-teacher ratio, and it belongs to Columbus City Schools District. Because it is the only school here, the useful comparisons are against its own district, against Ohio, and across its own recent years.
The headline is that this school clearly outperforms its district. Statewide it ranks 693rd of 1,046 — the 34th percentile with 2 stars — while its district sits in the 12th percentile with 1 star. In 2025-26 it beat the district in six of seven tested subject and grade combinations, often by wide margins: Science 8 by 20.7 points, Math 8 by 23.7, ELA 8 by 22.3, ELA 6 by 15.1, and ELA 7 by 13.3. Eighth grade is the standout, landing within roughly 3 points of the state average in Math 8 and ELA 8. The exception is seventh-grade math, the only measure where the school trails even its district (15.0% versus 16.5%) — and it did so the prior year too, so it is not a one-year blip.
The trajectory is encouraging. Average school proficiency rose about 4.2 points year over year, faster than the district's 2.6 points and the state's 1.5 points, and six of seven measures improved. ELA 7 did drop 14.4 points, but at 49.2% it still beats the district by 13.3 points. The main caution is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 51.0%, meaning more than half of students miss at least 10% of school days, only slightly better than the district's 53.8%. In short, this is a stable, above-district school with strong eighth-grade results, improving faster than its peers, but held back by seventh-grade math and attendance.
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