Schools in Findlay, IL

Findlay has one listed school, Okaw Valley Middle School, serving grades 5–8 and enrolling 124 students. The latest available results show a strong relative performance in English language arts (ELA), but a much weaker one in mathematics. The most important concern is that the mathematics gap with the state widened sharply in 2025–2026.

Okaw Valley Middle School is the area’s only school, so there is no local top-versus-bottom comparison; its results stand out in different ways against state results. In 2025–2026, all-grades ELA proficiency was 70%, versus 56% statewide, a 13-point lead. Mathematics was 12%, compared with 40% statewide, a 27-point shortfall. ELA exceeded the state in every reported grade. Science also varied by grade: fifth-grade results were 20 points above the state, while eighth-grade results were 11 points below it.

Results moved in opposite directions by subject: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose 6 points at the school, and its state advantage widened by 3 points; mathematics fell 12 points while the state result rose 1 point, worsening the school’s state gap by 13 points. Science improved at both tested grades, with fifth grade moving from below the state to well above it, while eighth grade remained below. SchoolDigger gave the school 3 stars in each of the three years shown, while its reported percentile moved from 54 in 2023–2024 to 52 in 2025–2026. Other context includes a student–teacher ratio of 10.9 in 2024–2025, 50% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism of 11%, compared with 8% in the district and 24% statewide. Grade 5, 6 and 8 mathematics results are state-suppressed, so those figures are unknown; with only one school, the data cannot show patterns across local schools.