Summary:
ZIP code 43338 covers the Mount Gilead area of Morrow County, Ohio, and contains exactly one middle school: Mt Gilead Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 with 226 students (about 75 per grade) as part of the Mount Gilead Exempted Village district. Because it is the district's only provider of grades 6–8, there is nothing to compare it against locally — the useful benchmark is the state average.
The school's strengths are concentrated in its upper grades and advanced courses. Algebra I results stand out dramatically at 93.8% proficient — 32.2 points above the state — and 8th-grade science is also strong at 76.9%, or 15.7 points above the state and up 13 points from the year before. Eighth-grade math made the single biggest jump in the data, rising from 31.1% to 57.3% in one year, moving from 16.5 points below the state to 5.3 points above it. Overall the school holds a 2-star rating and ranks 561 of 1,046 schools (46th percentile), a level it has held steady at after dropping from 3 stars and the 60th percentile in 2023–24.
The clear weak spot is 7th grade, where math sits at 34.4% (14.2 points below the state) and reading at 48.6% (14.1 points below). Both subjects lag there, unlike 6th and 8th grade, where results are closer to or above state averages. Chronic absenteeism is 18.0%, higher than the district's 15.8%. About 48.67% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is a favorable 12.6 to 1. The forward-looking concern for parents: the current 7th-grade group's weak math could follow them into 8th grade next year.
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