Summary:
ZIP code 45365 is home to a single middle school — Sidney Middle School, a grades 5–8 school with 840 students in the Sidney City district in Ohio. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there is no local comparison to make; the useful yardsticks are how it performs against its own district, against the state, and against its own past results. Statewide it sits near the middle: 527th of 1,046 schools in 2025–26, at the 50th percentile with 2 stars, after 3 stars at the 52nd percentile the prior year.
The strongest results are in 8th grade. Eighth grade math reached 62.7% proficient in 2025–26, which is 10.7 points above the state and up 9.8 points from the year before, and 8th grade science was 66.3%, or 5.1 points above state. Algebra I End-of-Course students scored 100% proficient in both years, far above the state's 59.4% and 61.6% — though that likely reflects a small, selective group rather than the whole school. The weaker area is 5th grade: ELA was 50.7% proficient against a state rate of 70.4%, a gap of 19.7 points, and 5th grade math was 41.8% versus 59.1%. Sixth grade ELA also trailed the state by 10.1 points.
Other context matters for parents. Chronic absenteeism was 22.9% in 2025–26, slightly above the district's 21.8%, and 66.79% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–25. The student-teacher ratio was 17.8, and per-student spending was $8,838 in 2018–19. One contrast worth noting: the Sidney City district ranks 562 of 773 districts, at the 27th percentile with 1 star, while the middle school itself sits closer to the state median. Overall this is a mixed profile — strong upper-grade math and science, with persistent early-grade gaps.
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