Best Public Schools in Geneva, OH

Geneva, Ohio has four public schools in the Geneva Area City district serving K–12: two elementary, one middle, one high, totaling 1,733 students. The district is ranked 435th of 773 Ohio districts (44th percentile, 2 stars). Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for all schools, most student-teacher ratios are not reported, and spending data is from 2018–2019. No test scores were suppressed, but one high school record has unusual 8th-grade results noted below.

Cork Elementary School is the standout: ranked 644th of 1,560 elementary schools (59th percentile, 3 stars), the only 3-star school, with 20.6% chronic absenteeism (district: 29.6%) and 3rd-grade proficiency of 85.4% in math and 81.3% in ELA. Geneva Platt R. Spencer Elementary School is lowest-ranked (1,024th of 1,560, 34th percentile, 2 stars), with 28.3% absenteeism and 3rd-grade scores of 50.0% math and 49.2% ELA—a 35.4-point math and 32.1-point ELA gap behind Cork. Geneva Middle School is ranked 595th of 1,046 (43rd percentile, 2 stars), has 28.5% absenteeism, 93.8% Algebra I proficiency, but core 6th–8th math and ELA below state; 8th-grade science improved from 43.8% to 61.0%. Geneva High School is ranked 469th of 795 (41st percentile, 2 stars), with 39.7% absenteeism and a 93.7% graduation rate. It is above state in American Government, American History, and Biology but below in Algebra I (54.6%) and Geometry (36.7%), and its rank percentile fell from 67% to 56% to 41%.

Attendance generally aligns with outcomes: Cork has the lowest absenteeism and strongest results, while Geneva High has the highest absenteeism and weakest rank trend. Yet Platt and Geneva Middle have similar absenteeism with different test profiles. Spending does not clearly align: Platt spends the most ($8,080) but ranks lowest, while Cork spends slightly less ($8,037) and performs better; this uses dated 2018–2019 data. Also, the Geneva High record includes 8th-grade Science and ELA at 90.9% proficient, which appears to be a reporting anomaly since the school serves grades 9–12—verify before using it.