Summary:
Zip code 44875 in Shelby, Ohio is home to exactly one middle school — Shelby Middle School — a building of 474 students serving grades 6 through 8 within the Shelby City district. Because there is only one school here, there is no local peer comparison to make; every benchmark below is the school against its district, the state, or its own history.
The school is a standout. It has earned 4 stars and sat between the 72nd and 81st percentile of Ohio middle schools for three straight years — a higher standing than the district's own 3-star, 67th-percentile mark. Across the two years of test data, all 16 reported subject-and-grade measures beat the Ohio average, and the average margin above the state was roughly 17 to 20 points. Mathematics drives those results: grade 7 math hit 75.6% proficient against a state figure of 48.6%, grade 8 math posted 75.9%, and Algebra I end-of-course proficiency was 100% in both years (compared with 70.9% district and 61.6% state). Note that Algebra I reflects only the eighth graders who took that exam, not the whole building.
Two areas the data flags: eighth-grade ELA, at 62.2% proficient, cleared the state by just 3.9 points and fell 6.3 points year over year, and eighth-grade science dropped 8.5 points from an exceptionally high 86.1%. Chronic absenteeism is the only measure where the school trails its district — 17.5% versus 13.7%. Context figures include 56.75% of students on free/reduced lunch, a 19.8:1 student–teacher ratio, and per-student spending of $8,310, though each of those comes from a different year. Year-to-year changes also reflect different groups of students, not necessarily changes in the school.
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