Summary:
Zip code 44202 (Aurora, Ohio) contains exactly one public middle school in this data set — Harmon Middle School — serving grades 6 through 8 with 689 students, part of the Aurora City district. Because there is only one school here, the meaningful comparisons are against the district and the state rather than against a local peer.
Harmon is a consistently elite school by state standards. It ranked 32nd of 1,046 Ohio middle schools (97th percentile) in 2025‑2026, 30th of 1,046 in 2023‑2024, and 40th of 1,036 in 2024‑2025, earning five stars in all three years. Aurora City ranks 30th of 773 districts statewide (96th percentile, 5 stars). Harmon beat the state in all nine reported assessments, by an average of roughly 33.6 percentage points. Mathematics is the deepest strength: Math 8 was 92.5% proficient versus 52.0% statewide, and both Geometry and Algebra I end-of-course exams were reported at 100% proficient in both years.
Context matters here. Chronic absenteeism is 7.8%, below the district's 8.4%, and the free/reduced lunch rate is 8.56% (2024‑2025). The student–teacher ratio is 17.6, implying roughly 39 teachers (a derived estimate, since staff counts are not reported), and per-student spending is listed at $11,361 — but that figure is from 2018‑2019 and does not describe current funding. Parents should note two things: Harmon's scores match Aurora City's almost exactly in most cells, so school and district results rise and fall together; and the one metric moving the wrong way is English Language Arts in grades 6 and 7, which fell 4.3 and 2.9 points respectively while Math 6 jumped 7.8 points. Those ELA scores remain far above state averages, but they are worth watching.
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