Summary:
ZIP code 45769 — Pomeroy, a small rural community in Meigs County, Ohio — is served by exactly one public middle school: Meigs Middle School, which enrolls about 350 students in grades 6–8 and is part of the Meigs Local district. Because there is only one middle-level campus here, families have no in-district alternative to compare it against, and many of the "district" test figures in the state data are identical to the school's own results — so the state average is the only meaningful external benchmark.
By that benchmark, Meigs Middle School trails the state on every reported math, ELA, and science measure, with gaps of roughly 6 to 13 points in the four comparable 6th- and 7th-grade tests in 2025–26. The school still stands out within its own district: it earns 2 stars and ranks in the 36th percentile of Ohio schools, while Meigs Local as a whole earns 1 star and ranks in the 20th percentile of districts. Its rank has been stable for three years, holding between the 33rd and 36th percentile with 2 stars each year.
The most encouraging signal is in 6th grade, where math proficiency rose from 34.4% to 50.5% and ELA from 30.5% to 43.1% year over year; that same group improved again as 7th graders in ELA, from 30.5% to 50.0%. The weakest points on record are 8th-grade science (45.0% versus a 63.0% state figure) and 8th-grade math and ELA, though no 2025–26 8th-grade results are available. Chronic absenteeism is 33.7% — about one in three students — with only one year of attendance data. Free/reduced lunch status is not reported, and spending figures date to 2018–19, so poverty and current funding context cannot be assessed from this data.
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