Summary:
ZIP code 44903 in Mansfield, Ohio contains exactly one school — Mifflin Elementary School, a K–4 building with 256 students in the Madison Local district — so there are no local middle or high schools and no other schools to compare it against within the ZIP.
Mifflin stands out against both its district and the state. In 2025-26, 88% of 4th graders were proficient in math, versus 65.9% district and 67.3% state, and 70% were proficient in ELA, versus 58.2% and 61.8%. The prior year was even stronger: 95.2% in 4th grade math (district 85%, state 69.1%) and 78.6% in 4th grade ELA. Overall the school beat the state on 6 of 8 tested measures and its district on 7 of 8. It also kept chronic absenteeism to 9.5%, less than half the district's 20.4%. Third grade in 2025-26 was the exception — math at 58.3% fell below both district and state, and ELA at 61.7% was just under the state.
Those weak 3rd grade numbers likely reflect a different group of children rather than a drop in teaching quality: the 2024-25 3rd graders scored 86.7% in math and, as 4th graders a year later, held at 88%, while the incoming 3rd grade class scored near state averages. This also explains the school's volatile ratings — 4 stars and 83rd percentile in 2024-25, 3 stars and 56th percentile in the years on either side. With roughly 51 students per grade, a handful of students can shift results. Nearly six in ten students (59.38%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, the student-teacher ratio is 13.4:1, and the only spending figure available is $9,151 per student from 2018-19 — too old to draw conclusions from.
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