Summary:
ZIP code 45653 has just one middle school: Minford Middle School, a grades 4–8 school with 443 students in Minford, Ohio, part of the Minford Local district. Because it is the only school in the ZIP, there are no local peers to compare it with; the useful comparisons are to the district and the state.
Minford Middle is on an upward path. Its latest rank is 411 of 1,046 schools in 2025–2026, the 61st percentile with 3 stars, up from the 52nd–53rd percentile in the two prior years. Eighth grade is the standout: math proficiency is 69.4% versus the state's 52.0%, a gap of +17.4 percentage points, and ELA is 64.4% versus 58.3%, rebounding from 49.0% the previous year. ELA improved broadly — three of five ELA grades were above the state, after all five were below it the year before. Across all reported tests, the school was above the state in 7 of 12 in 2025–2026, compared with only 4 of 12 in 2024–2025, moving from slightly below to slightly above the state on a simple average.
There are areas to watch. Sixth-grade math is the clearest weakness at 45.8% versus the state's 56.2%, a gap of -10.4 points that has persisted for two years. Fourth grade remains below the state in both math (64.9% vs 67.3%) and ELA (57.1% vs 61.8%), and fifth-grade science fell from 71.1% to 61.5%, now 1.2 points below the state. Chronic absenteeism is 20.8%, meaning about 1 in 5 students missed 10% or more of school days — better than the district's 22.9%. Note that free/reduced lunch is not reported, spending data is from 2018–2019 at $8,210 per student, and the student-teacher ratio of 15.2 has no state comparison provided.
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