Summary:
ZIP code 45864 covers the Miller City area of Putnam County, Ohio, and contains exactly one middle school: Miller City Middle School, a grades 6–8 school with 119 students in the Miller City-New Cleveland Local district. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP — and the only tested middle school in its district — there is no local peer to compare it against, so the meaningful benchmark is the state of Ohio.
By that benchmark, the school is elite. It has ranked in the top 2% of Ohio middle schools for three consecutive years, earning 5 stars each time: 12th of 1,046 in 2023-24, 14th of 1,036 in 2024-25, and 22nd of 1,046 in 2025-26. In 2025-26, proficiency sat 21 to 45 points above the state average in every tested grade and subject — 8th grade math and science both at 97.5%, 6th grade math at 93.9%, and 6th grade ELA at 90.9%. Math is the relative strength (about 37–41 points above state), followed closely by science (36–37 points); ELA trails at 26–31 points above state. The prior year included two perfect 100% scores, in 8th grade math and 8th grade science.
Two cautions are worth a parent's attention. First, the trend is cooling: average proficiency slipped from 91.1% to 88.6% while the state average rose, and rank drifted from 12th to 22nd. Second, 8th grade ELA fell 15 points (95.0% to 80.0%), though that reflects a different cohort and still beat the state by more than 21 points. On the positive side, chronic absenteeism at the school (0.3) is less than half the district's (0.7). With roughly 33–40 students per grade, a single student moves a grade-level rate by 2.5–3 points, so small swings deserve caution. Free/reduced-lunch data is unknown for 2024-25.
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