Summary:
Amanda, Ohio is served by four public schools — all part of the Amanda-Clearcreek Local district — covering pre-kindergarten through 12th grade: Amanda-Clearcreek Primary School (PK–2), Amanda-Clearcreek Elementary School (3–5), Amanda-Clearcreek Middle School (6–8), and Amanda-Clearcreek High School (9–12). Together they enroll 1,493 students, with the two elementary schools serving 761 students, about 51% of the total. The district is ranked 506 out of 773 in Ohio — the 35th percentile — with 2 stars, and it is below average but not uniformly weak.
There are clear bright spots. The Middle School's Algebra I proficiency was 81.8%, far above the state's 61.6% and the district's 41.7%, the strongest single subject result in the data. The High School outperformed the state in English II (75.8% vs. 62.7%), American Government (79.6% vs. 71.6%), American History (77.8% vs. 73.2%), and Biology (72.9% vs. 67%), and reported a 94.5% graduation rate. The Primary School had the lowest chronic absenteeism at 11.5%, with the Elementary School close behind at 11.6%, both comfortably below the district's 17.0%.
Concerns cluster at the upper grades and at the Elementary School. High School Algebra I was only 29.7% — 31.9 points below the state and down from 55.6% a year earlier — and its chronic absenteeism of 26.9% is the city's highest, more than double the two elementary schools. The Elementary School had every tested subject below the state average, along with the highest student-teacher ratio (18.1) and the lowest per-student spending in 2018–2019 at $9,742. The Middle School's 7th-grade Math and ELA both fell sharply, and it dropped from 3 stars to 2 stars. Free/reduced lunch is not reported for the Elementary and Middle Schools, so those values should be treated as unknown, not zero.
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