Summary:
Peebles, Ohio is served by two public schools — Peebles Elementary School (PK–6, 552 students) and Peebles High School (7–12, 347 students) — both in the Adams County Ohio Valley Local district, which is rated 439th of 773 districts statewide (43rd percentile, 2 stars). Together the two schools enroll 899 students. There is no separate middle school: grades 7 and 8 sit inside Peebles High, so all middle-grades testing is reported under the high school.
Peebles High School is the clear standout. In 2025–2026 it beat both its district and the state average in all 11 tested subject and grade combinations. Its 8th grade Science result of 93.5% is the most striking figure in the data, 32.3 points above the state, and 8th grade American History (84.4%) and American Government (79.0%) are also strong. The school ranks 289 of 795 high schools (64th percentile, 3 stars) — up from the 48th percentile a year earlier — and graduates 96.6% of students, even though its chronic absenteeism rate of 26.4% is 5.7 points worse than the district's. Parents should read that combination as a strength achieved despite an attendance challenge, not because of good attendance.
Peebles Elementary tells a more mixed story. It ranks 42nd percentile (2 stars) and beat the state in only 3 of 9 tested areas, though 3rd grade Math has been a reliable strength (68.8 and 69.2 across two years) and 4th grade ELA jumped from 45.9% to 67.6% in a single year. The concern is upper-elementary math, which slides from 68.8% in 3rd grade to 50.0% in 4th and 44.1% in 5th — the lowest figure in this data set, 15.0 points below the state. Its three-year rank trend has also slipped from the 56th to the 42nd percentile. Notably, the elementary has better attendance (19.3%) than the district but the weaker academic results of the two campuses.
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