Ottawa Township HSD 140

Ottawa Township HSD 140 has one listed school, Ottawa Township High School, serving grades 9–12 in Ottawa, with 1,223 students. In 2025–2026, graduation was nearly the same as the state rate: 90% at the school and 90% statewide. Chronic absenteeism, however, was higher—31% compared with 24% statewide. Across the nine reported grade-and-subject results, the school averaged 40% proficient, versus 47% statewide. The clearest academic concern is that results in mathematics and science were generally further behind the state than ELA.

With only one school listed, there are no local school peers to rank against each other. The strongest result was grade 9 ELA, where 64% were proficient, 2 percentage points above the state. The weakest state comparison was grade 10 science: 32% proficient, 16 points below the state’s 48%. Mathematics was also well below state results in grades 10 and 11, by 13 points in each. By contrast, grade 9 science was nearly level with the state, just under 1 point behind. Across the three reported grades, the average gap was 2 points below the state in ELA, 11 points below in mathematics, and 9 points below in science.

Results improved in grades 9 and 11 but declined across all three grade 10 subjects. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, grade 9 scores rose by 5–8 percentage points and grade 11 ACT scores by 3–10 points; grade 10 results fell by 3–9 points. Overall, the average gap to the state narrowed by 3 points, from 10 points below to 7 points below. SchoolDigger gives the district 1 star and ranks it 551 out of 738; its percentile rank fell from 61 in 2023–2024 to 39 in 2025–2026. The school’s student-teacher ratio was 13.7 in 2024–2025, and 34% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2021–2022. These figures describe a single school and do not allow comparison with local peers.