Summary:
ZIP code 43731 contains exactly one middle school — Crooksville Middle School, serving grades 5–8 with 317 students as part of the Crooksville Exempted Village district, which ranks 597th of 773 Ohio districts (23rd percentile, 1 star).
Because it is the only middle school in the area, all comparisons are against district and state averages. The school sits in the bottom third of Ohio middle schools: its 2025–2026 rank is 754 of 1,046, or the 28th percentile, with 1 star — down from the 34th percentile and 2 stars in 2024–2025. Results are highly uneven by grade. In 2025–2026, 5th-grade ELA (72.5%) and 5th-grade science (63.3%) were slightly above state averages of 70.4% and 62.7%, and Algebra I (54.5%) beat the district's 43.8% while trailing the state's 61.6%. The clearest weaknesses are in 8th grade: math proficiency was just 10.9% against 52% statewide, ELA 29.3% against 58.3%, and science 48% against 61.2%. 6th-grade math (38.6% vs. 56.2%) and 7th-grade ELA (50.6% vs. 62.7%) were also below state. For every grade 5–8 subject, the school's scores and the district's scores are identical, meaning the school essentially defines district results at those levels.
Year over year, lower grades improved while upper grades fell: 5th-grade ELA rose 13.9 points, 5th-grade science 14.7 points, and 7th-grade ELA 19.5 points, but 8th-grade math dropped 19.3 points, 8th-grade ELA 22 points, and Algebra I 22 points. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 27.0%, above the district's 22.9% — more than one in four students. The student-teacher ratio was 14.7, and per-student spending was $10,113, though that figure is from 2018–2019 and is outdated. Free/reduced lunch data is not reported, so economic context cannot be assessed from this file.
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