Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 45405

Middle schools in ZIP code 45405 consist of one school, Edwin Joel Brown Middle School, serving grades 7–8 with 326 students in the Dayton City district. Because it is the only middle school in this ZIP code, there are no local peer schools to compare it with; the most useful comparisons are to its district and Ohio statewide averages. The Dayton City district itself ranks 725 out of 773 Ohio districts, at the 6th percentile with 0 stars, so the local context is already far below the state average.

Academically, Edwin Joel Brown Middle School has remained near the bottom of Ohio’s rankings for three years: 1,042 out of 1,046 in 2025–2026, 1,031 out of 1,036 in 2024–2025, and 1,032 out of 1,046 in 2023–2024, with 0 stars each year. In 2025–2026, reported proficiency ranges from 0% in 8th-grade Mathematics to 9.1% in Algebra I End of Course. All six reported tests are below the Dayton City district and far below the state; the school’s simple average is about 3.8%, compared with about 19.4% for the district and 57.4% for Ohio. In 2024–2025, the school averaged about 4.3% across five tests, versus about 19.6% for the district and 55.6% for the state. The only year-over-year improvement was 7th-grade English Language Arts, from 4.1% to 6.6%, while Science, 8th-grade Mathematics, and 8th-grade English Language Arts declined.

Attendance and context add important cautions: chronic absenteeism is 57.1% in 2025–2026, compared with 43.8% for the Dayton City district—13.3 percentage points higher, meaning more than half of students were chronically absent. The student-teacher ratio is 12.5:1 in 2024–2025, though without district or state benchmarks it is hard to judge. Per-student spending is listed at $8,872 for 2018–2019, which is too old to describe current conditions. The free/reduced lunch percentage is not populated in this data set and should be treated as unknown. Overall, this single middle school serves ZIP 45405 with significant academic and attendance challenges, and it performs below both its district and the state across every reported test comparison.