The 2025-26 Ohio School Report Card from the Ohio Department of Education & Workforce (ODEW) shows Midview Local Schools earned 22 out of 30 stars, maintaining its overall four-out-of-five-star rating. Midview is among 313 of Ohio’s 607 public school districts to earn an overall rating of 4 stars or higher, including one of nine districts in Lorain County. Based on its overall score, Midview ranks among the top 40% of districts statewide.
“These results are a reflection of the hard work happening across our district every day,” said Midview Schools Superintendent Chad Heuser. “The work we do at Midview is unique to the students, families, and communities we serve. Our staff understands our students and continues to find ways to meet their needs, while also challenging them to grow. These results give us an opportunity to recognize what is working, identify where we can continue to improve, and make sure we keep moving forward together as one district.”
Ohio School Report Cards are designed to provide communities, educators, and policymakers with information about the performance of schools and districts, specifically as it relates to results from Ohio State Tests. Districts are evaluated across six components:
Achievement: Measures student performance on state tests and whether they meet state thresholds
Progress: Tracks changes in achievement over time, comparing 2025-26 state test results with results from the previous two school years
Gap Closing: Assesses progress toward reducing educational disparities among student subgroups
Graduation: Evaluates four-year and five-year graduation rates
Early Literacy: Focuses on reading proficiency for students in grades K-3
College, Career, Workforce, and Military Readiness: Looks at how well-prepared students are for future opportunities after high school
Midview increased its Gap Closing rating to five stars, significantly exceeding state standards, and its Early Literacy rating to three stars, meeting state standards. The district maintained four-star ratings in Achievement, Progress, and Graduation, along with its two-star rating in College, Career, Workforce and Military Readiness.
Looking more closely at the data points that determine the overall component scores, the district noted strong outcomes in Math Achievement, Math Progress, Gifted Performance, Gifted Progress and the Graduation Rate.
“What stands out most is our continued strength and growth in our Achievement, Progress, and Gap Closing measures,” said Jodi Wolf, Director of Curriculum and Instruction. “These have consistently been some of our strongest areas, and we not only maintained that performance, but continued to make significant gains in math and ELA within those components.”
“We believe that growth reflects the intentional work happening across our district,” Wolf continued. “We have made curriculum adjustments and strengthened our intervention programming to better meet the specific needs of our learners. Our classroom teachers, intervention tutors, and instructional coaches are working together to identify exactly what individual students need, provide targeted instruction and use resources that meet students where they are. We are seeing the results of that work in the more granular points of the data.”
The Ohio School Report Card data also outline areas where districts can continue to improve. For Midview, Early Literacy in grades K-3, science achievement in grades 5, and College, Career, Workforce and Military Readiness.
Early Literacy is one area where work is already underway. This year, the district adopted new English language arts instructional materials with a stronger emphasis on early literacy. Midview also plans to continue expanding its preschool program, which would give more students an earlier introduction to the district's curriculum and help build a stronger academic foundation before kindergarten.
Other areas, including the College, Career, Workforce and Military Readiness component, give the district additional information to consider as it looks at opportunities for growth.
“We’re proud of the opportunities we provide our students to prepare them for life after high school, whether that means college, a career or another path,” Heuser said. “Our students are earning honors diplomas and college credit, gaining technical skills, and getting real-world experience through career-based courses, pre-apprenticeships and work-based learning. Not all of that is reflected in the measures that make up the Readiness component. At the same time, there are some data points within the component that we need to take a closer look at and work toward improving.”
The report card data is one of many resources Midview uses throughout the school year to inform instructional planning. Professional development days, weekly building-level teacher-based team meetings and other opportunities throughout the year give staff and administrators time to collaborate, examine student data and identify strategies and interventions to support individual student needs.
“I want to emphasize that the Ohio School Report Card is just one measure among many,” Heuser said. The full body of work that takes place in a district could never be measured through a handful of state tests. So, while we use this information to support instructional decisions and improve our practices, we also know it does not define the full scope of what our students and staff bring to the table each day. I stand behind all we do for our students and am proud of what Midview continues to accomplish year after year.”