Summary:
Pomeroy, Ohio has just two public schools, both in the Meigs Local district: Meigs Middle School for grades 6–8 (350 students) and Meigs High School for grades 9–12 (542 students), for a combined 892 students. The district as a whole ranks 620 of 773 Ohio schools, at the 20th percentile with 1 star, so families here are choosing between a middle school that outperforms the district and a high school that trails it. No elementary schools appear in this data, so early grades cannot be compared.
Meigs Middle School is the relative bright spot. In 2025–26 it ranked 667 of 1,046 schools, at the 36th percentile with 2 stars, and its rank has been stable (36th percentile in 2025–26, 33rd in 2024–25, 35th in 2023–24). Chronic absenteeism is 33.7%, close to the district's 33.1% and far below the high school's 50.5%. Its best results were 6th-grade math at 50.5% proficient (up sharply from 34.4% the year before, and 5.7 points below the state) and 7th-grade English Language Arts at 50% proficient. No middle school subject was above the state average, and 6th-grade ELA was 12.9 points below.
Meigs High School is the bigger concern: 1 star, 16th percentile, and 50.5% chronic absenteeism — more than half of students. Its graduation rate is 82.4%. The clearest problem is math: Geometry was 14.2% proficient versus 43.3% statewide (29.1 points behind), and Algebra I 27.8% versus 61.6% (33.8 points behind), with Algebra I also declining year over year. There is good news in other subjects, where scores rose from 2024–25 to 2025–26: American History 40.2% to 55.7%, English II 53.2% to 58.8%, Biology 49.0% to 54.9%, and American Government 46.6% to 50.0%. English II came closest to the state, only 3.9 points behind.
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