Summary:
ZIP code 44054 has just one middle school: Brookside Middle School, a grades 7–8 school in Sheffield Village with 259 students, part of the Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City district — a district ranked 377th of 773 in Ohio (51st percentile, 3 stars). Because it is the only middle school in the area, everything below describes the entire local middle-school landscape, so there is no second school to compare it against.
Brookside's biggest academic strength is Algebra I, where 100% of tested students were proficient in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, far above the district (68.9 and 61.9) and state (59.4 and 61.6). Keep in mind that middle-school Algebra I is usually taken by a smaller group of advanced students. Math and science are also consistently above state averages: in 2025–2026, 7th-grade math was 58.6 vs the state's 48.6, 8th-grade math 59.8 vs 52.0, and 8th-grade science 63.9 vs 61.2. Seventh grade clearly gained ground year over year, with math rising from 52.2 to 58.6 and ELA from 55.6 to 62.4.
There are warning signs, though. The school's rank slipped from the 82nd percentile with 4 stars in 2023–2024 to the 65th percentile in 2024–2025 and the 56th percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026 — a 26-point percentile drop. Eighth grade moved the wrong way: ELA fell to 50.4, below the state's 58.3, while science dropped from 76.3 to 63.9 and math from 70.9 to 59.8, though both stayed above state. Chronic absenteeism was 26.4% in 2025–2026, above the district's 24.1%. About 49.03% of students qualified for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratio is 19:1, and per-student spending of $8,602 dates back to 2018–2019.
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