Summary:
Schools in the Oberlin, Ohio area include seven schools serving elementary through high school grades across three districts — Firelands Local, Oberlin City Schools, and Lorain County JVS — with about 3,613 students enrolled in total. The largest is William R Burton (1,194 students), a career-technical high school, and the smallest is Langston Middle (184).
Firelands Local is the standout district, ranked 180 of 773 Ohio districts (77th percentile, 4 stars), and all three of its schools here rate 4 stars. Firelands Elementary is the strongest elementary in the group: in 2025–2026 every listed Ohio State Test subject was above the state average, chronic absenteeism is the lowest at 8.1%, and its latest rank is 375 of 1,560 (76th percentile). Firelands High posts a 98.5% graduation rate, all listed End-of-Course tests above state averages, and a rank of 199 of 795 (75th percentile). Firelands Middle also has all listed 2025–2026 tests above state averages and Algebra I proficiency of 100% in both years, though its rank slipped from the 83rd to the 74th percentile.
Within Oberlin City Schools (2 stars, 451 of 773 districts), Langston Middle is the bright spot — 63rd percentile, 3 stars, up from the 52nd percentile — with Biology proficiency of 100% in both years, Algebra I at 100% then 80%, and Geometry at 92.3% in 2024–2025, although 7th-grade math was 39% versus the state's 48.6%. Oberlin High (39th percentile, 2 stars) graduates 98.5% but has the group's highest chronic absenteeism at 20.1% and Geometry at 23.1% versus the state's 43.3%. Oberlin Elementary (37th percentile, 2 stars) has only 3rd-grade ELA above state, with 4th-grade math 45.0 versus 67.3 and 5th-grade math 45.5 versus 59.1. William R Burton has no rank, test-score, free/reduced-lunch, or spending data here.
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