Summary:
ZIP code 44451 — North Jackson, in the Mahoning County area of northeastern Ohio — contains exactly one middle school: Jackson-Milton Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 210 students. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP code, there is no local school-to-school comparison to make; instead, the school can be measured against Ohio as a whole, against its own recent history, and against Jackson-Milton Local, the district it belongs to.
In 2025-2026 the school ranked 104th of 1,046 Ohio middle schools — the 90th percentile — earning 5 stars, up from 170th (84th percentile, 4 stars) the year before and 151st (86th percentile, 4 stars) the year before that. That is a three-year rise, not a one-year spike. Every tested subject-grade combination beat the state average, by margins ranging from +16.7 to +32.7 points. Sixth- and seventh-grade math were the standout strengths, at 88.9% and 81.2% proficient against state rates of 56.2% and 48.6%. The biggest single swing was eighth-grade science, which climbed from 58.3% (4.7 points below state) to 78.3% (17.1 points above state) in a single year.
A few cautions for parents: eighth grade produces the school's narrowest margins over the state in every subject, and the same students who posted 85.5% in ELA and 78.0% in math as 7th graders slipped to 75.0% and 69.0% as 8th graders. The reported student-teacher ratio is 30:1, high for a middle school, which sits in tension with the strong results. Chronic absenteeism is 15.2%, better than the district's 18.4%. Note also that the free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported, and per-student spending ($8,332) dates to 2018-2019, so those parts of the picture remain incomplete.
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