Summary:
Zip code 45877, covering Pandora, Ohio, has exactly one middle school: Pandora-Gilboa Middle School, part of the Pandora-Gilboa Local district. It serves grades 5 through 8 with roughly 158 students — about 40 per grade — and a student-teacher ratio of 22.5. The data covers 20 test results across two school years (2024-2025 and 2025-2026) in mathematics, English language arts, and science, all from the Ohio State Tests.
By every measure in this data, it is a high-performing school. It ranks 99th of 1,046 Ohio middle schools — 5 stars, 91st percentile, or top 10% statewide — after sitting in the low 80s percentile the prior year. All 20 reported test results exceed the Ohio average; there is no below-state result in any subject, grade, or year. Mathematics is the standout: the school's math advantage over the state widened from +20.6 to +27.3 points in a single year, and 7th grade math reached 91.2% proficient versus 48.6% statewide. Chronic absenteeism is 8.2%, better than the district's 10.6%.
A few areas are worth watching. English language arts still beats the state in all eight grade-year comparisons, but its lead narrowed slightly, and 5th grade ELA's +1.5-point margin is the thinnest in the file. Fifth grade science also dropped 15.8 points year over year, though that reflects a different cohort of students rather than tracked individual decline. Parents should also know that the school's results are identical to the district's in all 20 rows, so the district is not an independent benchmark — the state comparison is the meaningful one. Free/reduced-price lunch is not reported, and per-pupil spending ($10,430) dates to 2018-2019, so current economic context and resources cannot be assessed from this data.
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