Summary:
ZIP code 44143 is home to just one middle school, Richmond Heights Middle School, which serves grades 7–8 and enrolls 137 students at 447 Richmond Rd in Richmond Heights, Ohio, as part of the Richmond Heights Local district.
Because this is the only middle school in the area, it defines the entire middle-grade picture for local families, and there are no nearby in-ZIP peers to compare it against. The school carries a 1-star rating and ranks in the 16th percentile of Ohio middle schools in both 2025–2026 and 2024–2025, with a slightly better 20th percentile in 2023–2024. Its core subject results trail the state by wide margins: in 2025–2026, Math 7 was 13.8% proficient, Math 8 was 15.9%, Science 8 was 27%, and ELA 8 was 23.5%, each roughly 34 to 36 percentage points below the state. ELA 7, at 44.8%, is the strongest core result but still sits about 18 points below the state average. In most of these subjects, the district's proficiency figures are identical to the school's, suggesting this school is effectively the district's tested population for grades 7 and 8.
The clearest bright spot is Algebra I: 63.2% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, above the district's 44.6% and slightly above the state's 61.6%, and 59.1% in 2024–2025 versus 34.8% for the district. Improvement is mixed — ELA 7 rose 8.6 percentage points, Algebra I 4.1 points, and Math 8 5.3 points, while Math 7 fell 6.9 points and Science 8 slipped 2 points. Chronic absenteeism, at 26.0%, is lower than the district's 30.9%. Families should also note that 73.72% of students qualify for free/reduced-price lunch, the student-teacher ratio is 26.8, and the only per-student spending figure available is $10,229 from 2018–2019.
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