Summary:
ZIP code 44657 covers Minerva, Ohio, and it contains exactly one middle school: Minerva Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with about 461 students as part of Minerva Local. Because it is the only building in the district testing grades 6–8, its scores and the district's scores are identical for every grade-level test, so district-level ratings should be read as a picture of this school rather than as a comparison against it.
That picture is strong and improving. In 2025–2026 the school earned 4 stars and ranked 214th of 1,046 Ohio middle schools — the 80th percentile — up from the 64th percentile just two years earlier. Average proficiency across eight tested subjects rose from 67.5% to 74.9%, and every tested area now sits above the state average. Math is the engine: 8th-grade math reached 78.3% versus 52.0% statewide, and 6th-grade math 77.2% versus 56.2%. The Algebra I cohort was 100% proficient in both years, well ahead of the district's 70.6% on the same exam. Eighth-grade science staged the largest turnaround, flipping from 3.8 points below the state to 9 points above.
Two things are worth watching. Chronic absenteeism is 14.4%, nearly 1.7 times the district's 8.5% — the one measure where the school trails its own district, and also a factor in state accountability. Meanwhile, 7th-grade math (61.0%) is comfortably above the state but noticeably behind the school's own 6th and 8th grades. Finally, the free/reduced-lunch rate is not reported and the spending figure dates to 2018–2019, so neither should be used to judge how well this school is doing.
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