Summary:
ZIP code 44140 covers Bay Village, Ohio, and contains exactly one middle school: Bay Middle School, which serves grades 5 through 8 and enrolls 738 students. It is the only school in the Bay Village City district serving those grades, and that district ranks 9th out of 773 Ohio districts, placing it in the 99th percentile with a 5-star rating.
Bay Middle School is a top-2% middle school in Ohio. Its state rank among 1,046 middle schools has improved three years running — 27th, then 21st, then 17th — while earning 5 stars each year. In 2025–2026 it averaged roughly 90.9% proficiency across all 11 tested areas, against a state average near 59%, and every reported assessment cleared the state by at least 25.8 points. The largest gaps versus the state appear in Math grade 7 (+39.5 points) and Algebra I (+38.4 points), where the school posted 100% proficiency in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Its lowest result, ELA grade 6 at 84%, would still rank near the top of most Ohio schools.
Context is favorable: chronic absenteeism was 8.0% in 2025–2026, about 1 in 12.5 students, and 11.38% qualified for free or reduced-price lunch. The student–teacher ratio is 14.3, and per-student spending was $13,550 in 2018–2019 — a figure seven years older than the test data, so it should not be read as current resourcing. School-wide performance was essentially flat year over year, but two moves are worth watching: Math grade 8 rose 6.6 points while ELA grade 6 fell 5.4 points, and Science grade 5 slipped 4.8 points. Because the school and district results are identical on every grade-level test, only Algebra I allows a meaningful school-versus-district comparison.
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