Summary:
Corning, Ohio is a small village with just two public schools, both part of the Southern Local district and both located at the same address: Millcreek Elementary School, serving grades PK–6 with 346 students, and Miller High School, serving grades 7–12 with 240 students. Together they enroll 586 students. Because Miller High covers grades 7 and 8, there is no separate middle school in Corning. The district as a whole ranks 605 of 773 Ohio districts, at the 22nd percentile with 1 star.
The two schools are heading in opposite directions. Millcreek Elementary School has climbed from the 32nd to the 39th percentile over three years and holds 2 stars. It has real bright spots — 3rd grade ELA is 83.3% proficient against 63.4% statewide, and 5th grade Science is 65.9% versus 62.7% — but 4th grade is a serious problem, with ELA at 31.9% (about 30 points below state) and math at 35.4% (about 32 points below). Chronic absenteeism there is 19.6%, better than the district's 26.5%. Miller High School has slipped from the 31st to the 17th percentile and now carries 1 star, with no tested subject above the state average. Its widest gap is American Government at 26.7% versus 71.6% statewide, though Algebra I and American History both improved. Notably, its graduation rate is 93.1%, and its chronic absenteeism is 35.4% — nearly double the elementary rate.
For parents, the practical picture is a small, shared campus where the elementary school is slowly improving while the high school is declining and struggling with attendance. Two caveats: free and reduced-price lunch data is not available for either school for 2024–25, so economic disadvantage cannot be assessed, and spending figures ($10,125 at Millcreek, $10,942 at Miller High) date from 2018–19 and do not reflect current conditions.
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