Summary:
ZIP code 44507 in Youngstown, Ohio is home to just one middle school — Rayen Early College Middle School, which serves grades 5 through 8 to about 370 students on Williamson Avenue — so the picture here is a single-school profile rather than a comparison between schools.
The most important context for parents is that this school performs far above its district. It belongs to Youngstown City, which ranks 709th of 773 Ohio districts (8th percentile, 0 stars), yet Rayen Early College sits at 541st of 1,046 middle schools statewide (48th percentile, 2 stars). In 2025–26 the school beat the district average on every grade-level test, usually by more than 20 points — science 8th grade was 61.0 versus the district's 25.2, and Algebra I reached 100% proficient compared with 32% district-wide. Against the state, Rayen is roughly at the middle: a bit below Ohio in most math and reading grades, but above it in 8th-grade math (+6.3), 7th-grade ELA (+1.4), 8th-grade ELA (+6.6), and Algebra I (+38.4).
Test scores are also rising. Comparing the same grade and subject year over year, math gained about 12–24 points in every grade and reading rose across the board, cutting the school's distance from the state roughly in half — from about 14 points below to about 6. Rank climbed from 37th to 48th percentile. Two soft spots stand out: 6th grade is the weakest grade in both math (33.0, about 23 points below the state) and ELA, and 5th-grade science slipped from 65.0 to 54.8, the only declining measure. Chronic absenteeism is 32.1%, far better than the district's 56.7% but still a real headwind. Note that free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, and the spending figure ($11,694) dates to 2018–19.
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