Bay Middle School

Bay Middle School serves grades 5 through 8 in Bay Village, Ohio, enrolling 701 students at a student-teacher ratio of 14.0 to 1. The school earns a composite score of 9.0 out of 10 — rated Exceptional — placing it 12th among 650 middle schools in Ohio and in the top 1% of all 3,440 public schools statewide. Academic performance anchors that standing.

Bay Middle's academic score reaches 9.8 out of 10, the highest of its four rating dimensions. Its growth score of 8.5 adds meaningful context: students here are advancing at an above-average pace relative to their starting points, not just performing well in aggregate. That pairing of high absolute scores with strong trajectory separates genuinely effective schools from those that reflect demographics alone.

The broader rankings confirm the picture. Bay Middle sits 47th overall out of 3,440 Ohio public schools — a position that holds across grade levels, geographies, and school types. For families comparing options within Bay Village specifically, it ranks second of four local schools.

For those evaluating middle schools across the state, few public options land this close to the top. Parents searching for documented academic strength at the middle school level will find the data here unusually consistent.