Summary:
Mason, Ohio is served by four public schools in the Mason City district, covering prekindergarten through 12th grade with 10,155 students enrolled. The district is ranked 37th of 773 Ohio districts — 95th percentile with 5 stars — and every ranked school in the data also carries 5 stars.
William Mason High School is the largest school at 3,435 students and graduates 98.2% of them, ranking 45th of 795 high schools (94th percentile), its best recent position after 72nd and 60th in prior years. Mason Middle School ranks 67th of 1,046 (94th percentile) and posts extraordinary advanced math results: 99.7% proficiency in Algebra I and 97.9% in Geometry, with 100% in Geometry the prior year. Mason Intermediate Elementary School, a very large elementary with 3,086 students, ranks 110th of 1,560 (93rd percentile) and beats state proficiency by 17 to 48 points across grades 3–6. Mason Early Childhood Center Elementary School serves PK–2 with 1,997 students and has no test scores or rank history, as expected for that grade span.
Two things stand out for parents. First, the high school's chronic absenteeism of 18.2% is well above the district's 11.6% and the 7.0%–10.2% range at the other three schools, making it the clearest outlier in the data. The high school also has the highest student-teacher ratio at 24.5, compared with 19.6 at the middle school, 20.2 at the Intermediate, and 20.7 at the Early Childhood Center. Second, free/reduced lunch is low everywhere, between 13.92% and 19.02%, indicating a relatively affluent district, and per-student spending from 2018–2019 is fairly uniform at $9,345–$10,629, though that spending data is dated.
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