Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 44136

ZIP code 44136 in Strongsville, Ohio is served by two middle-level schools — Strongsville Middle School (grades 6–8, 1,327 students) and Strongsville Online Learning Opportunity Academy (grades 7–8, 9 students) — both part of the Strongsville City district, which ranks 94th of 773 Ohio districts.

For parents, this is essentially a single-school decision. Strongsville Middle School enrolls 99.3% of the area's middle graders and is a consistent 4-star school in the top ~14% of Ohio middle schools, ranked in the top ~14% in 2025–26. It beats the state proficiency rate in every assessment reported across two years, by roughly 11 to 57 points. The standout is accelerated math: 100% proficiency in Geometry and 99.3% in Algebra I, against about 43% and 62% statewide. ELA is steady at 78.0–79.9 across all three grades. The watch items are a 7th-grade math score of 59.6% — the school's lowest and about 17 points below its own 6th-grade math — year-over-year drops in 8th-grade science (−9.7 points) and 8th-grade ELA (−5.8), a chronic absenteeism rate of 17.2% versus the district's 13.6%, and a gradual rank slide from 118 to 150 over three years. Poverty is moderate at 27.81% free/reduced lunch, and the student–teacher ratio is 14.9:1.

The Strongsville Online Learning Opportunity Academy has no test scores reported and cannot be compared with the middle school. Its only figures — a 90.9% graduation rate and 5.5% chronic absenteeism — are from 2022–23, well older than the rest of the data, and its poverty and staffing data are not reported.