Summary:
ZIP code 44511 in Youngstown, Ohio is served by a single listed public school: Chaney Middle, a grades 6–8 middle school at 2400 S Schenley Ave with 253 students, part of the Youngstown City district. There are no elementary, high school, or alternative listings in this ZIP, so there is no local school-to-school comparison to make — the meaningful benchmarks are the school against its own district, against Ohio, and against its own recent history.
Chaney Middle sits in the bottom tier of Ohio middle schools. It ranks 1,023 of 1,046 statewide in 2025-26 with 0 stars, and 709 of 773 in district rank, also 0 stars. This is the third straight year in roughly the bottom 3% of the state, following 1,015 of 1,046 and 1,007 of 1,036. Average proficiency is 8.5%, compared with 21.4% for the district and 56.4% for Ohio — a gap of about 48 points against the state. Its strongest results are all in 8th grade: ELA 8 at 13.8%, Math 8 at 13.6%, and Science 8 at 8.5%, while Math 7 is lowest at 2.7%. Even the school's best subject-grade result remains well under a quarter of the state rate.
Trends are mixed but the overall picture is flat: the school's average moved from 8.6% to 8.5% year over year while the district gained 2.6 points and the state 1.5. Chronic absenteeism is 72.6%, meaning roughly 7 in 10 students missed at least 10% of the school year, nearly 16 points worse than the district's already-high 56.7%. Two structural notes stand out: the student-teacher ratio of 11.5:1 is comparatively favorable (about 22 teachers for 253 students), suggesting staffing numbers alone don't explain the outcomes, and the only spending figure available is $11,991 per student from 2018-19 — too old to draw conclusions from. Free/reduced lunch data is not reported, so family-income context is unavailable.
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