Summary:
Athens, Ohio is home to three schools in this data set — two PK–3 elementary schools and one 7–8 middle school — all part of the Athens City School District, together serving 1,082 students. The list covers Morrison Gordon Elementary School, East Elementary School, and Athens Middle School, but it includes no high school and no grades 4–6, so it is not a complete picture of the district pipeline. Free and reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all three schools, so poverty comparisons are not possible from this extract, and spending figures date back to 2018–19.
East Elementary School currently has the strongest elementary profile: the lowest chronic absenteeism at 16.2%, well below the district's 26.4%, and the highest 2025–26 elementary test scores — 71.1% proficient in 3rd-grade math and 81.6% in ELA, both above district and state. That is a sharp reversal from 2024–25, when its math was 54.4% and ELA 67.1%. Morrison Gordon Elementary School, the largest school at 393 students, moved the opposite way: its 2024–25 results (73% math, 78.7% ELA) fell to 66.7% and 68.2%, now below district but still above state. It also has the highest student-teacher ratio at 18.7, compared with East's 13.7.
Athens Middle School holds the highest latest rank — 271 of 1,046, the 74th percentile with 4 stars — and its 2025–26 8th-grade results were strong: 73.6% in science, 72.9% in math, and 72.6% in ELA, all above state. Algebra I proficiency was 100% in both years, far above district and state, though the data does not show how many students tested, so it may reflect a small or selective group. 7th-grade results slipped, however, with math down to 54.8% and ELA to 67.3%, and the school has the highest chronic absenteeism at 30.4%.
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