Summary:
Philo, Ohio is served by a single school in this data set — Philo Junior High School, a middle school for grades 6–8 with 439 students in the Franklin Local district — so families in this small community have one local option for the middle grades, with no elementary or high school listed for the town itself.
Academically, the school sits mid-pack in Ohio but is clearly improving. It ranked 571st of 1,046 schools in 2025-2026 — the 45th percentile, with 2 stars — up from the 36th percentile the prior year, though the star rating stayed at 2. Average proficiency across grade-level tests rose from 43.5% to 51.9%, cutting the gap to the state average from roughly 11.4 points to about 4.5 points. Standouts include Algebra I (End of Course) at 100% proficient, well above the state's 61.6%; 8th-grade English at 60%, above the state's 58.3%; 7th-grade math at 50%, above the state's 48.6%; and 8th-grade science at 57.6%, a jump of 22.3 points in a single year. The current 8th-grade class is the school's strongest group.
The concerns are concentrated in the lower grades and in attendance. Seventh-grade English sits at 52.4% — 10.3 points below the state and down 8.2 points from the previous year. Sixth grade is the weakest band: 47.2% in English and 47.5% in math, both roughly 9 points below state averages. Chronic absenteeism is 24.8%, meaning about one in four students misses 10% or more of school, higher than the district's 21.5%. Some context is missing: free/reduced-lunch figures are blank, per-student spending is available only for 2018-19 at $9,199, and absenteeism has just one year of data.
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