Summary:
Perry, Ohio is served by a single district, Perry Local, which operates three schools covering the full PK–12 pipeline: Perry Elementary School (PK–4, 538 students), Perry Middle School (5–8, 443 students), and Perry High School (9–12, 509 students), for a total of 1,490 students. The district ranks 127th of 773 Ohio districts (84th percentile, 4 stars), and no test-score values in this data set were suppressed.
Perry High School is the flagship, ranking 66th of 795 Ohio high schools (92nd percentile, 5 stars) in 2025-2026, up from 87th percentile the year before. It combines a 96.2% graduation rate with the strongest test results in the city, beating the state by more than 21 percentage points on average across all six End of Course exams. Perry Elementary School is the biggest mover, leaping from 53rd percentile (3 stars) to 75th percentile (4 stars) in one year, and has the city's lowest chronic absenteeism at 10.6%. Perry Middle School is still solid at 76th percentile (4 stars) but has declined three straight years (85th → 84th → 76th).
Absenteeism climbs with grade level — 10.6% elementary, 15.3% middle, 17.9% high — and only the elementary school sits below the district's 14.6%. Grade 5 math is the clearest weak spot at 43.4% proficient, 15.7 points below the state and the lowest score anywhere in the data. Free/reduced lunch (28–29% at all three schools) and student-teacher ratios (17.0–17.7) are nearly identical, so performance differences are more likely tied to instruction and curriculum than to student population or class size. Per-student spending figures are from 2018-2019 and do not track outcomes. Overall: an excellent, climbing high school, a rapidly improving elementary school, and a respectable middle school losing ground.
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