Summary:
ZIP code 44095, in Lake County, Ohio, is home to two public middle schools — Eastlake Middle School (330 students) and Willowick Middle School (404 students) — both serving grades 6–8 and both part of the Willoughby-Eastlake City district, which ranks 416 of 773 Ohio districts (46th percentile, 2 stars).
Eastlake Middle is the stronger of the two on current measures. It ranks 503 of 1,046 schools (52nd percentile) with 3 stars in 2025–2026, compared with Willowick's 615 of 1,046 (41st percentile, 2 stars) — about 112 places and 11 percentile points ahead. Eastlake also has lower chronic absenteeism (25.0% vs. 28.4%) and a slightly smaller student-teacher ratio (12.6 vs. 13.2), despite a slightly higher free/reduced lunch rate and lower per-student spending. Averaging the seven grade-level tests, Eastlake sits at roughly 56.0% proficient; Willowick is about 49.5%, some 7 points below both Eastlake and the district and state figures near 56%. Willowick's clearest weak spot is 7th-grade math at 35.5%, versus Eastlake's 51.7% and the district's 52.5%.
Willowick does have real bright spots: ELA 7 at 62.1% was the only grade-level test where it beat Eastlake, and its Geometry (86.7%) and Algebra I (80.0%) End-of-Course results were far above district and state. Eastlake's Algebra I was 100% and its Science 8, Math 6, Math 7, Math 8, ELA 6, Math 6 and ELA 8 all topped Willowick. Both schools post exceptional advanced-math End-of-Course scores, though these likely reflect small, selected cohorts. Both made large Math 6 and 8 gains, both slipped in Science 8 (Willowick 59.7% to 52.9%; Eastlake 68.2% to 61.5%), and Willowick's overall rank has climbed three years running (684 to 650 to 615).
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