Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 45895

ZIP code 45895 covers Wapakoneta, Ohio, where two middle-level schools serve local families: Wapakoneta Middle School for grades 5–7 and Wapakoneta Junior High for grade 8, both run by the Wapakoneta City district and together enrolling 833 students. Because the grades split cleanly between the two buildings, the schools work as consecutive steps in one student pipeline rather than as competing options, and per-grade enrollment is comparable at each stage.

Wapakoneta Middle School is the standout: ranked 235 of 1,046 Ohio middle schools (78th percentile, 4 stars) and holding 4-star ratings three years running. It beats the state in five of seven tested measures, with its widest margins in 6th-grade math (77.5% vs. 56.2%) and 7th-grade math (68.3% vs. 48.6%). It also has lower chronic absenteeism than the district (12.3% vs. 15.4%) and fewer students per teacher (21.2 vs. 24.2). Wapakoneta Junior High posts exceptional advanced-math results — Algebra I End-of-Course at 100% proficient vs. 61.6% statewide, and Geometry at 100% vs. 42.8% in 2024-25 — though these reflect an accelerated, self-selected group of test-takers, not the full 8th grade.

Its general 8th-grade results are more modest: ELA 8 sits at 57.0% vs. 58.3% statewide, the school's rank slid from the 74th to the 59th percentile (4 stars to 3), and chronic absenteeism is 18.2%, above the district's 15.4%. Both schools softened in most subjects year over year. The clearest opportunities are 5th-grade math and ELA at the Middle School, both below state, and the Junior High's attendance gap. The Junior High's free/reduced lunch rate is not reported, so the two schools' economic profiles cannot be compared directly. Overall, the district-level label understates what the Middle School in particular has delivered over the past three years.