Summary:
ZIP code 43532 — Liberty Center, Ohio — is served by exactly one middle school, Liberty Center Middle School, which enrolls 293 students in grades 5 through 8 as part of the Liberty Center Local district. Because there is only one school in this ZIP, there is nothing to compare it against locally; instead, the meaningful comparison is to the state. The building's grade-level results are identical to the district's in every subject, meaning this school effectively *is* the district's grade 5–8 population. It has a student–teacher ratio of 17.2 and per-student spending listed at $10,676.
On performance, the school stands out statewide. It earned 5 stars in each of the last three years and has never ranked outside the top 5% of Ohio middle schools: 34th of 1,046 schools in 2025‑2026, 22nd of 1,036 in 2024‑2025, and 51st of 1,046 in 2023‑2024. In 2025‑2026, every tested metric beat the state — the narrowest margin was 8th-grade English Language Arts at +23.2 points and the widest was Algebra I at +38.4 points. Algebra I proficiency was 100%, versus 61.6% statewide and 90.3% for the district overall, making it the only measure where the school and district differ. Math was the strongest subject area (grades 5–8 ranging from 81.8% to 92.4%, against state rates of 48.6% to 59.1%).
Two things are worth monitoring. First, results slipped slightly year over year — the school's average moved from about 90.3% to 88.3% while the state average rose about 1.6 points — with 8th grade showing the steepest declines (ELA −7.7 points to 81.5%, Science −6.1, Math −5.0). Meanwhile 7th-grade math (+2.9) and 5th-grade ELA (+2.7) improved. Second, chronic absenteeism was low at 6.2%, better than the district's 7.7%. Note that the free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported, no state absenteeism benchmark is provided, and the spending figure dates to 2018‑2019.
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