Summary:
ZIP code 44511 on the south side of Youngstown contains a single middle school: Chaney Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 with about 253 students (roughly 84 per grade). It belongs to the Youngstown City district, which itself ranks 709th of 773 Ohio districts. Because Chaney is the only middle school in this ZIP code, there is no in-area peer to compare it against; the meaningful comparisons are with its own district, the state, and its own prior years.
On the 2025–2026 Ohio State Tests, Chaney's proficiency averaged 8.5% across seven subject-grade tests, compared with 21.4% for the district and 56.4% for the state. The school trailed its own district in every one of the seven tests, with gaps ranging from 7.3 points in 8th grade math to 18.7 points in 7th grade ELA. Chaney ranks 1,023rd of 1,046 ranked Ohio middle schools — the 2nd percentile — and has sat at 0 stars for three years. Seventh-grade math, at 2.7%, is the lowest figure in the entire data set. Chronic absenteeism was 72.6% in 2025–2026, well above the district's already-high 56.7%.
Some results did improve: 6th grade ELA rose 7.8 points, 8th grade ELA 7.0 points, and 8th grade math 5.3 points. Science is the outlier, with 8th grade science falling from 25.0% to 8.5% in a single year. Notably, the school's student–teacher ratio of 11.5 is comparatively favorable, and per-pupil spending was reported at $11,991 (a 2018–2019 figure, now several years stale), so class size and spending alone do not explain the outcomes. Free/reduced-lunch data was not reported, leaving economic context unknown.
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