Summary:
ZIP code 44601 is home to two middle schools: Alliance Middle School, the larger of the two with 584 students in grades 6–8 and part of Alliance City, and Marlington Middle School, with 416 students in grades 6–9 and part of Marlington Local. The available data cover two years of Ohio State Test proficiency, chronic absenteeism for 2025–26, school and district rankings, student-teacher ratios, and per-student spending; free/reduced-price lunch percentages are not reported for either school.
Marlington is the stronger school on nearly every measure. Its district, Marlington Local, ranks 285th of 773 Ohio districts (63rd percentile, 3 stars), compared with Alliance City at 625th of 773 (19th percentile, 1 star). Marlington has held steady around the 58th–64th percentile with 3 stars for three years and ranked 394th of 1,046 schools in 2025–26 (62nd percentile, 3 stars). Alliance ranked 764th of 1,046 that year (27th percentile, 1 star), slipping from 2 stars and the 35th percentile in 2023–24. Marlington exceeded the state in five of seven regular tested subjects; Alliance fell below the state in all seven, with its largest gap in ELA 6 at 23.9 points below.
Marlington also outperformed Alliance in every regular tested subject, by margins ranging from 13.3 points in ELA 7 to 35.2 points in Math 8. Chronic absenteeism was 26.3% at Alliance versus 12.0% at Marlington, and Marlington had a lower student-teacher ratio (15.6 vs. 17.6) and higher per-student spending in 2018–19 ($9,743 vs. $7,669), though that spending figure is dated. One shared bright spot: both schools reached 100% proficiency in Algebra I EOC in 2025–26 — Alliance up from 93.8% — but that likely reflects a small, selective group and should not be read as overall school performance. Note also that the two schools serve different grade spans (6–8 versus 6–9).
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