Summary:
ZIP code 43560 in Sylvania, Ohio is served by three public middle schools — Sylvania Timberstone Junior High School, Sylvania Mccord Junior High School and Sylvania Arbor Hills Junior High School — all part of Sylvania Schools (177th of 773 Ohio districts, 4 stars) and all serving grades 6–8, with a combined enrollment of 1,761 students. The three schools are close in size (573 to 607 students), so none stands out for scale alone.
McCord is the district's top performer, ranking 210th of 1,046 Ohio middle schools (80th percentile, 4 stars). It has the lowest chronic absenteeism (9.6%) and lowest poverty indicator (21.51% free/reduced lunch), leads in 6th- and 7th-grade math (77.1% and 72.3%), and is the only school reporting Geometry, with 100% proficiency in both years. Timberstone (228th, 78th percentile, 4 stars) is the English language arts and science anchor, leading all three schools in every ELA grade and in 8th-grade science (80.6% against a state rate of 61.2%), and is the most stable, holding 4 stars in each of three years. Arbor Hills is the only school rated 3 stars and ranks 360th (66th percentile), yet it still beats the state average in six of seven grade-level tests, leads the group in 8th-grade math (62.1%), and posted the largest year-over-year proficiency gain.
All three schools are above the state average in nearly every measure, and differences in money and class size are tiny: per-student spending spans just $268 ($7,109 to $7,377) and student–teacher ratios just 1.2 students (15.0 to 16.2). Attendance is the sharper dividing line — chronic absenteeism ranges from 9.6% at McCord to 23.2% at Arbor Hills — and it tracks with achievement. McCord's 8th-grade math result (49.6%, below both district and state) is a cohort signal worth watching rather than a school-wide decline. One caveat: Algebra I proficiency is 100% at all three schools, but those are selected advanced cohorts, not full grades.
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