Summary:
Zip code 45106 covers Bethel, Ohio, and the surrounding area, and it is home to exactly one middle-level school: Bethel-Tate Middle School, a grades 6–8 building with 298 students that serves as the middle school for Bethel-Tate Local. Because there is only one school here, there are no local peers to compare against — but the school can be measured against the district and the state, and by those yardsticks it looks strong.
The school beats the Ohio average in all eight reported measures. Its biggest advantages are in mathematics — grade 8 math is 70.6% proficient vs. 52.0% statewide and grade 6 math is 72.8% vs. 56.2% — and in grade 8 science (75.6% vs. 61.2%). Algebra I End of Course stands out at 100% proficient in both years reported, well above the district's 69.8% and the state's 61.6%; that figure reflects a small group of accelerated test-takers, so read it as a strong signal rather than a large-sample statistic. English language arts is more modest but still above the state at every grade, with the narrowest lead in grade 7 (64.8% vs. 62.7%). Statewide, the school is ranked 278th of 1,046 Ohio middle schools — the 73rd percentile — with a 4-star rating it has now held for three straight years, and it outranks its own district, which sits at the 64th percentile with 3 stars.
Two things are worth watching. First, state rank has drifted down over three years (210th to 225th to 278th, and 80th to 73rd percentile), still comfortably above average but heading the wrong way. Second, chronic absenteeism is 25.3%, about three points above the district's 22.1% — roughly one in four students — which is a meaningful drag on learning. On year-over-year test comparisons, some grade-level scores appear to fall, but tracking the same students shows math and ELA holding or improving in half of the transitions, so the underlying picture is steadier than the raw numbers suggest. The reported per-student spending figure of $5,861 comes from 2018–2019 and is too old to treat as current.
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