Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 44843

ZIP code 44843 in Lucas, Ohio is home to just one middle-level school — Lucas Heritage Middle School, a grades 6–7 building with 70 students in the Lucas Local district — so families here have a single option rather than a set of schools to compare against each other.

That school's clearest strength is mathematics. In 2025–26, 67.6% of sixth graders and 59.4% of seventh graders were proficient in math, against state averages of 56.2% and 48.6% — roughly 11 points higher at both grade levels — and the school has stayed above the state in math in every year and grade for which data is available. Attendance is another bright spot: chronic absenteeism is 5.0%, well below the district's 9.1%. Its statewide middle-school rank has also improved over three years, moving from 527 of 1,046 (50th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–24 to 412 of 1,036 (60th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–25, then settling at 460 of 1,046 (56th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–26.

English language arts is the weaker area. In 2025–26, 6th-grade ELA was 51.4% and 7th-grade ELA 54.5%, both below the state (56.0% and 62.7%). Results swing widely from year to year — one 7th-grade group reached 77.1% in 2024–25 — which is expected in a building with only about 35 students per grade, where one student's result shifts a grade-level rate by roughly 3 points. The middle school's rank (56th percentile, 3 stars) is also lower than the district's overall standing (213 of 773, 72nd percentile, 4 stars), suggesting other buildings in the district perform more strongly. One caution: the $7,052 per-student spending figure dates to 2018–19 and is too old to be useful.