Summary:
ZIP code 43755 covers Lore City, Ohio, and contains just one middle school: Buckeye Trail Middle School, the only middle school in East Guernsey Local. It serves grades 6 through 8 with about 213 students — roughly 71 per grade — and a student-teacher ratio of 14.9 to 1. Because there is only one school here, there is nothing to compare it against locally; instead, the useful comparison is how it stacks up against Ohio statewide averages and against its own district, which sits at the 34th percentile with 2 stars.
There is real good news. Math is the school's relative strength: in 2025-2026, 6th grade math hit 62.0% proficient (5.8 points above the state) and 7th grade math 58.1% (9.5 points above). The prior year was stronger still — the school averaged 6.1 points above the state across all seven tested areas, with 8th grade math at 66.7% (+19.1), 8th grade science at 80.3% (+17.3) and 8th grade ELA at 66.1% (+11.7). Over three years, the school has averaged around the 52nd percentile, noticeably better than its district's overall reputation.
The most recent year, however, fell to about 6 points below the state. Almost all of that swing came from 8th grade, where science dropped 45.2 points (80.3% to 35.1%, now 26.1 points below state), math fell 20.3 points, and ELA fell 16.1 points. That points to a cohort effect rather than a school-wide collapse, though science bears watching. Two other signals stand out: 6th grade ELA at 40.8%, 15.2 points under the state, and chronic absenteeism at 24.5% — roughly one in four students — versus 18.4% for the district. The school's rank slipped from the 62nd percentile to the 43rd and it lost a star. Free/reduced lunch data isn't reported, and spending figures date to 2018-2019.
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