Summary:
Mount Hope, Ohio has just one school — Mt Hope Elementary School, a K–8 building with 98 students at 8242 State Route 241, part of the East Holmes Local district, which is itself high-performing at 89th percentile and 4 stars statewide. With roughly 11 students per grade, this is a small rural school where a single student's result can visibly shift the numbers.
Academically, the school is strong. It beats the Ohio state average in every available test comparison — all 10 subject-and-grade rows in 2025-2026 and all 9 in 2024-2025. Upper-grade math and science are the brightest spots: 8th-grade math reached 100% proficient in 2025-2026 against 52% statewide, 7th-grade math hit 88.9% against 48.6% statewide, and science results ranged from 76.9% to 90%. The soft spot is the early grades. Third-grade math in 2024-2025 was 56.3%, the only result in the entire data set below the state average, and grades 3 through 5 trail their own district in every comparison — while grades 7 and 8 beat it in every comparison. That split between the lower and upper school is the most striking pattern in the data.
Beyond test scores, attendance is a clear strength: chronic absenteeism is 6.4% versus 10.5% for the district. Only 10.2% of students are economically disadvantaged, and the student-teacher ratio is 13:1. Two cautions when reading the numbers: the $9,720 per-student spending figure dates to 2018-2019 and should not be treated as current, and state rank has swung from the 88th percentile (2021-2022) to 53rd (2024-2025) to 69th (2025-2026) — volatility typical of very small cohorts rather than a clear trend. No 6th-grade results appear in either year and no 3rd-grade results appear for 2025-2026; these are gaps in the data, not signs of weakness.
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