Summary:
Zip code 44804 in Arcadia, Ohio has exactly one middle school: Arcadia Middle School, serving grades 7 and 8 with about 85 students as part of the Arcadia Local district. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there is no local peer to compare it against — but against Ohio as a whole, it stands out. In 2025-26 the school ranked 203rd of 1,046 Ohio middle schools (81st percentile) with 4 stars, its strongest showing in three years, after a dip to 3 stars in 2024-25.
On state tests, the school beat Ohio averages in all six measures reported for 2025-26: 7th-grade math 70.7% vs. 48.6% statewide, 8th-grade math 62.1% vs. 52.0%, 7th-grade ELA 77.3% vs. 62.7%, 8th-grade ELA 76.7% vs. 58.3%, 8th-grade science 72.1% vs. 61.2%, and Algebra I 100% vs. 61.6%. Year over year, 8th-grade math (+22.8 points) and 8th-grade science (+17.1) improved sharply, while 7th-grade math (−12.6) and ELA (−10.8) declined but still finished far above the state. For most subjects, the school's results match the district's exactly, meaning this one building essentially is the district's middle-grade story.
Chronic absenteeism was 3.5% in 2025-26 — roughly half the district's 6.9% and very low overall. Two cautions for parents: with about 42 students per grade, every percentage here can swing widely from one year to the next, and the school reports no free/reduced-lunch data, so it is difficult to place these results in economic context. Per-student spending is listed at $7,720, but that figure dates to 2018-19, and the reported 42.5 student-teacher ratio is most likely a reporting quirk rather than an actual class size. The outcomes are strong; the explanations behind them are incomplete.
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