Summary:
ZIP code 43771 in Philo, Ohio is home to a single middle school: Philo Junior High School, a public school serving grades 6–8 with 439 students as part of the Franklin Local district. Because there is only one school in this area, there are no local peers to compare it against, so the most useful benchmark is how it stacks up against Ohio as a whole.
Philo Junior High School sits in the middle of the pack statewide — 571st out of 1,046 ranked schools in 2025-26, the 45th percentile, with a 2-star rating. That is an improvement from the year before, when it ranked 658th out of 1,036 at the 36th percentile. Results in 2025-26 were notably stronger: proficiency rose in most subjects, and the average across the seven full grade-level tests climbed from 43.5% to 51.9% while the state average moved only slightly. Eighth grade is the strongest group, with ELA 8 (60.0%) above the state and Science 8 (57.6%) and Math 8 (48.6%) within about 3–4 points of it after trailing badly the year before. Algebra I stands out at 100% proficiency in both years, though that is an accelerated course taken by a small group of students rather than the full grade.
Three items are worth watching. Sixth grade trails the state in both math (47.5% vs 56.2%) and English (47.2% vs 56.0%), and seventh-grade English is the only subject that declined, falling 8.2 points to 52.4% — roughly 10 points behind the state. Chronic absenteeism is also high at 24.8%, meaning about 1 in 4 students missed enough school to be flagged. Finally, the free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported, and the per-student spending figure of $9,199 dates to 2018-19, so both offer limited current context.
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