Summary:
ZIP code 45155 contains just one middle school — Whiteoak Junior High School, part of the Bright Local district in Mowrystown, Ohio — serving grades 7 and 8 with 113 students.
Because this is the only middle school in the ZIP code, there are no local peers to compare it against, but it holds up well against statewide results. In 2025–26, Algebra I End of Course proficiency was 100%, far above the district's 78% and the state's 61.6%. Eighth grade Science reached 86.5% (state: 61.2%) and eighth grade Mathematics reached 71.2% (state: 52%), both up sharply from the prior year. Both grades were above state averages in English Language Arts, with 8th grade ELA improving from 57.7% to 64.2%. The clear weak spot is 7th grade Mathematics, where proficiency fell from 57.9% to 34.9%, below the state's 48.6% — the only listed 2025–26 measure where the school trails the state. Seventh grade ELA also slipped, from 80% to 64.9%, though it stayed slightly above the state's 62.7%.
The school's state rank has moved from the 50th percentile in 2023–24 to the 71st in 2024–25 and 65th in 2025–26, still comfortably above the district's 53rd percentile. Chronic absenteeism is 12.6%, about 2.5 percentage points above the district's 10.1%. The student-teacher ratio is 22.6, and per-student spending was $10,110 as of 2018–19. Free/reduced lunch data are not available, so economic context is limited. Overall, this small school shows strong Algebra I, Science, and 8th grade Math results, with 7th grade Math worth watching.
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