Summary:
ZIP code 44505 has two middle schools — East Middle at PRBerry (grades 6–8, 298 students, Youngstown City) and William S Guy Middle School (grades 4–6, 254 students, Liberty Local) — so the only fully comparable grade between them is 6th grade.
William S Guy Middle School is the stronger performer on nearly every measure. Its simple average proficiency was about 51.1% in 2025–2026 and 52.7% in 2024–2025, compared with about 6.1% and 6.3% at East Middle at PRBerry. In 2025–2026, William S Guy’s 6th-grade math proficiency was 64.3%, above the state’s 56.2%, while East Middle’s was 1.3%. Chronic absenteeism was 23.9% at William S Guy, far below East Middle’s 73.6% and also below its district’s 36.3%; East Middle’s rate was 16.9 percentage points above Youngstown City’s 56.7%. William S Guy also reported 98.82% free/reduced lunch, showing high economic need, yet still produced much stronger results. East Middle, by contrast, ranked 1,033 out of 1,046 schools, at the 1st percentile with 0 stars in 2025–2026, and every listed test score was below both its district and the state.
In the cleanest comparison, 6th grade, William S Guy outperformed East Middle by 30.7 to 63.0 percentage points across math and ELA in the two years shown. East Middle had a lower student–teacher ratio (12.4 vs. 19.5) and higher per-student spending ($13,700 vs. $9,964 in 2018–2019), but its outcomes were far lower. William S Guy’s older rank history was around the 28th–31st percentile with 1–2 stars from 2020–2021 through 2022–2023; no more recent rank history is provided. East Middle’s rank history shows persistent bottom 1st–3rd percentile results from 2023–2024 through 2025–2026. East Middle’s free/reduced-lunch value is not provided, so its poverty context cannot be directly compared.
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