Summary:
The city of Barnesville, Ohio is served by a single district, Barnesville Exempted Village, which operates three schools covering the full PK–12 pipeline: Barnesville Elementary School (PK–4, 516 students), Barnesville Middle School (5–8, 418 students) and Barnesville High School (9–12, 385 students), for a total enrollment of 1,319. Because the district has exactly one school per level, each school essentially is the district's performance at those grades. The district holds a 3-star rating and ranks 282 of 773 districts — the 64th percentile — but that average conceals three very different schools.
Barnesville Elementary School is the district's most consistent performer. All eight of its reported assessments are above the state average, with margins of roughly 5 to 18 points, and its four 2025–26 results span only 5.1 points (71.9 to 77.0) — unusual uniformity across two subjects and two grade levels. Barnesville Middle School is the standout improver, climbing from the 55th to the 69th percentile in two years. Nine of its ten assessments are above state, including 5th-grade science at 84.8% versus 62.7% statewide and 8th-grade math at 79.8% versus 52.0% — a 27.8-point gap, the largest in the data set.
Barnesville High School is the concern: the district's only 2-star school, at the 49th percentile. Its Geometry result (35.4% proficient, 7.9 points below state) is the lowest in the district, and English II has slipped to 1.5 points below state. Its strengths are American History (83.0%) and American Government (78.1%). Chronic absenteeism rises sharply with grade level — 19.1% in elementary, 26.1% in middle, 35.8% in high school — even as the graduation rate reaches 96.8%. The clearest takeaway for families is that performance declines as students move up, and the 8th-to-9th-grade transition is where the district's strongest math results meet its weakest.
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