St Henry Middle School, Saint Henry OH

Original Research by School Decision on St Henry Middle School

St Henry Middle School serves students in grades five through eight in a small consolidated district in rural Mercer County. The school is housed with the elementary and high school on Columbus Street in the village of Saint Henry, a tight-knit community of roughly a thousand people anchored by St. Henry's Catholic Church and rooted in agriculture and faith. Housing in the immediate area is modest and family-oriented; median home values are well above the state average and rising, and inventory moves quickly, often off-market. The broader region is growing very slowly, constrained by farmland, with little new residential development.

The school's recent test results are strong across the board. In math, proficiency sits well above the midpoint for districts in Mercer County. Science performance is particularly high. English language arts proficiency is solid, though slightly lower than math and science. A social studies result from an earlier year was also strong. All three current-year subjects show near-universal participation. The school tests all students in these subjects; the data represent the full cohort, not a subset. Across tested subjects and grades, the school's overall proficiency index places it above the midpoint among the county's districts.

The enrollment is small, just under three hundred students across the four grades. The student body is almost entirely white, with very small numbers of Asian, Hispanic, and Black students. Publicly available data on free-or-reduced-price lunch eligibility, special education enrollment, and English learner status were not provided. The absence of these metrics is common for schools this size and does not necessarily signal a data gap unique to this school.

Saint Henry Consolidated Local operates as a traditional public district. No major curricular overhauls, bond measures, or property-tax changes of clear lasting parent-relevant impact were found in recent news or district sources for this school system. The elementary building underwent a construction improvement bid process in late 2023, but no ongoing district-wide shift emerged from available reporting.

The village itself is compact and walkable, with schools, church, and main-street shops all within a short distance. Cooper Farms, a large poultry and food processing company, is the dominant local employer. Parks include recreation fields, a pool, splash pad, and a summer concert series. Mercer County Community Hospital is a short drive away in Coldwater. There is no fixed-route public transit; State Routes carry local traffic. Larger shopping and dining options are a short drive away in nearby Celina.

A parent or family considering this school is essentially choosing a small, academically solid middle school in a rural, stable, and close-knit community where most families own their homes and ties to agriculture and faith run deep. The results suggest sound teaching and broad student competency. The setting is residential, quiet, and unpretentious. This is a neighborhood school in the fullest sense, not a choice school, and its fit depends on whether a family's values and life rhythm align with a very small, slow-growing, faith-centered rural village.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grades 3-893%

School 93% · District 95% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 32 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

English language arts

Grades 3-887%

School 87% · District 87%

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Science

Grades 3-896%

School 96% · District 96%

▲ 30 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 692%

School 92% · district not reported

▲ 29 pts above state median

This schoolSt Henry Consolidated Local, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 5Lower-income78%Higher-income88%10 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income80%Higher-income76%4 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income80%Higher-income92%12 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income50%Higher-income74%24 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income78%Higher-income95%18 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income80%Higher-income91%11 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income90%Higher-income97%7 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income71%Higher-income77%6 pp gap