Summary:
ZIP code 45135 covers Leesburg, Ohio, and contains just one middle school: Fairfield Local Middle School, which is part of the Fairfield Local district. It serves grades 6 through 8 with 198 students, and its student-teacher ratio was 24.7 in 2024–2025. Because it is the only middle school in this ZIP code, there are no nearby peer schools to compare it against — the most useful benchmarks are the district, the state of Ohio, and the school's own prior-year results. Free/reduced lunch data was not available for this record, so socioeconomic context is unknown.
Academically, the school is strong. Its Algebra I End-of-Course results were reported at 100% proficient in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, far above the district's 46.3% and the state's 61.6% in 2025–2026. In 8th grade math, the school posted 76.1% proficient versus the state's 52.0% in 2025–2026, and 82.7% versus 47.6% the year before. Eighth-grade science came in at 74.6% against a state figure of 61.2%, and the school was above the state in English Language Arts at all three tested grade levels in 2025–2026. It has held a 4-star rating for three straight years, with its best recent standing in 2024–2025, when it ranked 210 out of 1,036 schools, or the 80th percentile.
There are watch items. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, 6th-grade math fell 12.1 points and 6th-grade ELA fell 11.6 points; 8th-grade math and ELA also slipped, though most scores stayed above state averages, and the 8th-grade ELA advantage was narrow at 2.0 points. The school's rank softened to 283 out of 1,046, the 73rd percentile, while remaining at 4 stars. Chronic absenteeism was 15.9%, which is 2.8 percentage points above the district's 13.1% and worth monitoring. Finally, the Algebra I result is exceptional but should be read with care, since the number of test-takers is not provided and may be a small cohort.
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