Summary:
Zip code 44446 covers Niles, Ohio, and includes five schools serving roughly 2,034 students: three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. Four of them — Niles Primary School (PK–2), Niles Intermediate School (2–7), Niles Middle School (6–8), and McKinley High School (9–12) — belong to the Niles City district. The fifth, Niles Preparatory Academy (K–5), is a separate district, Niles Preparatory Academy, and is the highest-ranked district represented here.
Niles Preparatory Academy is the academic standout in the early grades, with 3rd-grade math and English language arts at 95.8%, 4th-grade math at 95%, and 5th-grade science at 100%, all far above state averages — though 5th-grade math (45.5%) and 4th-grade ELA (55%) fall below state. Niles Intermediate is the strongest Niles City elementary in math, exceeding the state in grades 3, 4, and 5, and has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the area at 23.3%, well under the district's 35.9%. Niles Middle posts 100% Algebra I proficiency in both recent years and has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 13.2, while McKinley's Algebra I rate (70.5%) also beats the state.
The sharpest challenges sit at the secondary level. Absenteeism climbs from 23.3% at Niles Intermediate to 38.7% at Niles Middle and 48.5% at McKinley High. McKinley's graduation rate (89.8%) is essentially the district's 89.9%, but Geometry (24% vs. state 43.3%), American History (54.1% vs. 73.2%), and American Government (56.3% vs. 71.6%) are major weak points, and its rank slipped to the 24th percentile with 1 star. Niles Primary has no current test data. Free/reduced-lunch figures are blank for all five schools, so poverty context is unavailable.
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