Summary:
ZIP code 45778 is home to a single middle school, Federal Hocking Middle School in Stewart, Ohio, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 185 students as part of the Federal Hocking Local district.
The school's strongest results are in 8th grade math, where 59.1% of students scored proficient — above the state average of 52.0% and up 33.0 percentage points from 26.1% the year before. Sixth grade English Language Arts is also above the state (58.8% vs. 56.0%), and 6th grade math rose 24.0 points to 54.9%, now just 1.3 points below the state. Across all seven reported tests, the school's average proficiency climbed from about 40.3% to 52.7% in one year, narrowing its average gap to the state from roughly −14.6 points to −3.7 points. Its state rank improved from 694 of 1036 (33rd percentile) to 560 of 1046 (46th percentile).
Even so, the school remains rated 2 stars and trails the state in five of seven reported tests. Seventh grade is the main weak spot: math dropped 9.6 points to 42.6% (6.0 points below the state) and ELA sits at 52.7% (10.0 points below). Eighth grade science, at 50.7%, is 10.5 points below the state average despite a 5.8-point gain. Chronic absenteeism is 22.9% — nearly one in four students — though that is 4.0 points better than the district's 26.9%. With about 60 students per grade, each student can shift results by roughly 1.6 points, so swings may reflect cohort changes as much as instruction. The free/reduced-lunch figure is not reported, and per-student spending of $7,050 dates to 2018–2019, so family-income and funding context is limited.
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