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Best Public Schools in Monroe, OH


At a glance
6
Schools
3,029
Students
2
Districts
Top rankedMonroe Elementary School293rd of 1,560 Ohio elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Monroe High School up 18 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Monroe Primary School 16.5 students per teacher
Summary:

Monroe, Ohio is home to five schools spanning pre-kindergarten through 12th grade — two elementary, one middle, and two high schools, with zero alternative schools — and four of them belong to Monroe Local, while Butler Technical Natural Science Center operates within Butler Technology & Career Development Schools. Total enrollment across the area is 3,029 students, with 2,925 of those in Monroe Local. That district ranks 191 of 773 schools statewide, placing it in the 75th percentile with 4 stars.

The academic standout is Monroe Elementary School, the largest school with 1,166 students in grades 2–6. All 9 of its reported tests beat the Ohio proficiency rate, led by 4th grade mathematics at 93.6% versus 67.3% statewide, and it holds 4 stars at 293 of 1,560 schools (81st percentile), stable in the 80th–82nd percentile range over three years. Monroe Junior High School reports a remarkable 100% proficiency in Algebra I for two straight years, far above the district's 84.5% and the state's 61.6%, though its rank slipped from 87th to 71st percentile and 8th grade math fell from 74.2% to 56.2%. Monroe High School graduates 97.5% of students and had all 6 End of Course tests above state; American History (82.0%) and English II (80.0%) lead, while Geometry (49.7%) is the clear weak spot.

Among the youngest students, Monroe Primary School serves PK–1 with no state test or ranking data, but posts the lowest chronic absenteeism at 11.2% and the lowest student-teacher ratio at 16.5. Absenteeism climbs with grade level: 11.2% at Primary, 12.6% at Elementary, 15.4% at Junior High, and 18.8% at High, against a district rate of 14.4%. Free/reduced lunch is fairly even across Monroe Local, ranging from 34.9% to 39.79%, but reaches 74.04% at Butler Technical, a career-technical school in a separate district with no test, rank, absenteeism, spending, or ratio data reported here.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Ohio Department of Education.

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