Summary:
Killbuck, Ohio has one public school, Killbuck Elementary School, serving grades K–5 with 221 students in the West Holmes Local district; there are no middle, high, or alternative schools in the area.
For parents, the school’s standout strength is attendance: chronic absenteeism is 6.0% in 2025–26, less than half the district’s 14.3%, even though 56.56% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–25. Fourth grade is the academic highlight in 2025–26, with 86.0% proficient in math and 79.1% in English Language Arts; math beat the state by 18.7 points and ELA beat the state by 17.3 points. ELA also jumped 20.3 points from the prior year. The school has kept a 3-star rating each reported year, ranking 668 of 1560 schools statewide in 2025–26, or the 57th percentile, down slightly from 60th in 2023–24.
Fifth grade is the weakest grade in 2025–26: math was 57.6% proficient, 13.2 points below the district and 1.5 points below the state, while ELA was 69.7%, 13.4 points below the district. Third-grade math fell 9.4 points to 63.8%. Overall, Killbuck Elementary was above the state in 5 of 7 tests in 2025–26 and 6 of 7 in 2024–25, but generally trailed its own district. Simple unweighted averages across the seven tests were school 69.1%, district 73.5%, state 63.8% in 2025–26, and school 68.3%, district 73.7%, state 63.5% in 2024–25. With only 221 students, grade-level swings can be large. Other data: per-student spending was $11,204 in 2018–19, and the student-teacher ratio was 17:1 in 2024–25.
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