Summary:
ZIP code 43771 contains exactly one listed school — Philo Junior High School, a middle school serving grades 6–8 with 439 students in the Franklin Local district — so this area's data set is narrow, with 0 elementary schools, 1 middle school, 0 high schools, and 0 alternative schools, leaving no within-ZIP school-to-school comparisons.
Academically, the school's strongest result is Algebra I: it reported 100% proficient in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, well above the district's 53.7 and the state's 61.6, though as a junior high this likely reflects a small, selected group of students. Eighth-grade ELA improved sharply, rising from 45.3 to 60.0 and moving from 9.1 points below state to 1.7 points above it, and seventh-grade math (50.0) also edged past the state's 48.6. Science 8 (+22.3) and Math 8 (+16.6) posted the largest year-over-year gains but remain slightly below state. ELA 7 was the only clear regression, falling from 60.6 to 52.4 and landing 10.3 points below state. Across the seven regular grade-level tests, the school's average climbed from about 43.5 to 51.9 while its gap to state narrowed from roughly 11.4 points to 4.5 points.
Two areas are worth watching. Chronic absenteeism was 24.8% in 2025–2026, about one in four students, and 3.3 percentage points above the district's 21.5%. The school's rank improved to 571 of 1046 (45th percentile, 2 stars), still below the median Ohio school; the district ranks 488 of 773 (37th percentile, 2 stars). Free/reduced lunch is not reported, spending data is from 2018–2019, only one year of absenteeism is available, and test scores include no sample sizes.
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