Summary:
Paulding, Ohio has just one elementary school — Paulding Elementary School — serving about 442 students in grades PK through 5 as part of the Paulding Exempted Village district, which ranks 305th of 773 districts statewide.
The school's clearest strengths are attendance and momentum. Chronic absenteeism is 3.6%, roughly half the district's 7.0% — an unusually strong figure, since attendance is one of the best early signals of how students will perform. Fourth grade is the academic bright spot: 84.7% of students were proficient in math and 74.6% in English language arts, both well above state averages. Across all seven tested grade-and-subject combinations, the school's average proficiency rose from 58.8% to 65.1% in a single year, moving it from slightly below the state to slightly above it. Its statewide rank also improved to 750th of 1,560 schools, and its star rating went from 2 to 3.
The concern is concentrated in fifth grade. Math proficiency there was 33.3% — about 26 points below the state — after 30.6% the year before, and fifth grade science dropped to 47.6%, about 15 points below the state. Fifth grade English language arts, by contrast, is solid at 74.6%. Notably, the school trails its own district average in every subject and grade, even while beating the state in five of seven, meaning other district schools score higher. Because scores compare different groups of students each year, big swings — such as fourth grade math's 28-point jump — should be read with caution. Spending data ($10,288 per student) dates to 2018‑19 and free/reduced lunch (47.74%) covers only one year, so both are background context rather than current measures.
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