Summary:
ZIP code 44706, on Canton's southwest side, contains exactly one middle-level school: McGregor Intermediate School, a grades 4–6 building with 206 students in the Canton City district. Because it is the only school at this level in the ZIP, there are no local peers to compare it against — the meaningful comparisons are the school's own year-over-year results and how it stacks up against its Canton City district and the state of Ohio.
The most important thing for parents to know is that proficiency fell in all seven tested areas — math and English Language Arts in grades 4, 5, and 6, plus grade 5 science — between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. The school's average dropped 12.5 points, from 32.5% to 20.0%. McGregor Intermediate School now trails the Canton City district in every subject and grade, by an average of 14.4 points, and trails the state by 36 to 49 points. The weakest spot by far is grade 6 English Language Arts, where 9.2% of students were proficient — under 10%, compared with 28.0% district-wide and 56.0% statewide. A year earlier the school was competitive with its district; that parity is gone.
The bright spot is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 24.8%, which is high in absolute terms but 10.5 points better than the district's 35.3% — the one measure where this school clearly outperforms its system. The student–teacher ratio is 13.2 to 1 (2024–2025, roughly 15–16 teachers), a moderate figure, but per-student spending of $12,276 dates to 2018–2019 and is too old to describe current resources, and free/reduced-lunch rates are not reported. In short: a small school with a real attendance advantage and a broad, uniform test-score decline.
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