Summary:
ZIP code 45879 — the Paulding, Ohio area — is served by exactly one middle school, Paulding Middle School (405 N Water St), which educates grades 6 through 8 with about 251 students, or roughly 84 per grade, as part of the Paulding Exempted Village district.
Its standout strength is mathematics. Eighth-grade math reached 67.3% proficient — 15.3 points above the state and a 16.0-point jump from the year before — while 7th-grade math hit 60.4%, 11.8 points above the state, and 6th-grade math stayed 8.4 points above the state despite a 10.8-point drop. The accelerated Algebra I end-of-course results were 100% proficient in both years, far above the district's 68.4% and the state's 61.6%; because those test-takers are a small, self-selected group, that figure is a real strength but a volatile one, not a whole-school statistic. The school's rank has improved from 2 stars to 3 stars, sitting near the 56th percentile of Ohio middle schools, and chronic absenteeism is a modest 8.6%.
English Language Arts is the clear weak spot, running roughly 8 points below the state on average across grades, and 6th grade is the weakest link: ELA 6 came in at 38.5%, 17.5 points below the state and 12.6 points below its own district, while the district outperformed the school in both 6th-grade subjects by 12–13 points. Note that free/reduced lunch is not reported (unknown, not zero) and per-student spending of $7,016 dates to 2018‑19, so family-income context and current funding cannot be assessed. With about 80–85 students tested per grade, single-year swings of a few points are noise, so read both the gains and declines as signals rather than settled trends.
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