Summary:
Zip code 41016 has two schools in Mary A. Goetz Elementary School, serving pre-K through grade 6, and Ludlow High School, serving grades 7–12. Their reported free/reduced lunch eligibility, enrollment and student-teacher ratios are fairly close, but their tested grades do not overlap, so test scores are best understood against state results for the same grade and subject. The most important finding is that results vary considerably by grade: the high school has standout upper-grade results alongside notable middle-grade weaknesses.
Ludlow High School has the strongest state-relative result: 11th-grade writing was 80% proficient, compared with 47% statewide, a 33-point advantage; 10th-grade reading was also 15 points above the state (64% versus 49%). However, 8th-grade reading and Editing and Mechanics were each 11 points below the state. At Mary A. Goetz Elementary School, 5th-grade Editing and Mechanics stood out at 65% versus 48% statewide, while 4th-grade math and reading were each 8 points below. These are grade-specific standouts, not an overall school-versus-school ranking.
Both schools improved their average position relative to the state across comparable grade-subject results from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: about 3 points per result at Mary A. Goetz Elementary School and 5 at Ludlow High School, though some scores fell, including Goetz 4th-grade math, down 21 points. SchoolDigger’s rankings also rose: Goetz moved from the 31st to the 44th percentile over three years, while Ludlow was in the 76th–85th percentile range and reached the 85th in 2025–2026. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible was 64% at Goetz and 66% at Ludlow. Goetz enrolled 455 students with a 14.4 student-teacher ratio; Ludlow enrolled 376 with a 13.8 ratio. Chronic absenteeism was below the state’s 24% at both schools: 15% at Goetz and 20% at Ludlow.
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