Summary:
ZIP code 44403 contains just one middle school: Brookfield Middle School, a grades 5–8 campus at 614 Bedford Rd SE in Brookfield with 298 students, serving as the middle-grades school of Brookfield Local. Because there is only one school here, the most useful comparison is between its grades and subjects and against Ohio state averages rather than against nearby schools.
On the 2025-26 Ohio State Tests, the school scored above the state average in only 2 of 10 subject-and-grade measures, with an average gap of 6.9 points below state. The bright spots: 7th grade math at 55.2% proficiency runs 6.6 points above state, and 5th grade English language arts at 68.4% is within 2 points of state. The trouble spots: 7th grade ELA fell 15.6 points in a single year to 43.3%, now 19.4 points below state; 8th grade is weak in all three subjects (math 42.2%, ELA 43.1%, science 51.4%); and science dropped sharply in both tested grades, down 14.3 and 18.9 points. Math, however, held steady or improved in three of four grades, so the decline is concentrated rather than across the board. The school rates 2 stars (39th percentile), better than its own district's 1 star (28th percentile), though its statewide rank slipped from the 46th to the 39th percentile.
Other context matters for reading these results. Chronic absenteeism was 27.4% in 2025-26 — lower than the district's 29.6% but still more than one in four students. The student-teacher ratio is 19.2, and per-student spending of $8,779 dates back to 2018-19. Free/reduced lunch is not reported, so poverty context is missing, and no state absenteeism benchmark is provided. Overall, this is a slightly below-average Ohio middle school with real strengths in 7th grade math and 5th grade ELA, and clear needs in science, 7th grade ELA, and 8th grade overall.
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