Summary:
Morral, Ohio is served by two public schools, both part of the Ridgedale Local district: Ridgedale Elementary School, which covers PK–5 with 306 students, and Ridgedale Junior/Senior High School, which serves grades 6–12 with 315 students. Together they enroll 621 students, and there is no separate middle school — the middle grades sit inside the junior/senior high. The district as a whole ranks 547th of 773 in Ohio, at the 29th percentile with 1 star, while each individual school currently shows 2 stars: the high school at the 42nd percentile and the elementary at the 36th percentile in 2025–2026.
Each school has distinct bright spots. At the junior/senior high, social studies is a genuine strength — American History was 84.8% proficient versus 73.2% statewide, American Government 75.4% versus 71.6%, and Biology and English II also beat the state. The graduation rate is 100.0% for both the school and the district. The elementary stands out for 5th grade ELA (73.2% vs. 70.4% state), 3rd grade math (65.2% vs. 62.1%), 5th grade science (63.4% vs. 62.7%), and notably lower chronic absenteeism at 12.9%, compared with the district's 18.2% and the high school's 23.0%. Poverty indicators are high at both: free/reduced lunch is 55.24% at the high school and 61.44% at the elementary.
The concerns are math and attendance. At the junior/senior high, Geometry was 20.8% versus 43.3% statewide, 7th grade math 28.3% versus 48.6%, and 6th grade math 36.6% versus 56.2%. At the elementary, 4th grade fell sharply: math was 44.7% versus 67.3% state and ELA 38.3% versus 61.8%, while 3rd grade ELA was 47.8% versus 63.4%. Both schools averaged below the state on their listed tests in 2025–2026 — the high school by 8.2 points and the elementary by 8.5 points — and both lost ground in rank percentile after peaking in 2024–2025.
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