Summary:
Powhatan Point, Ohio is served by a single public school — Powhatan Elementary School, a PK–8 building of about 200 students in the Switzerland of Ohio Local district. There are no other public elementary, middle, high, or alternative schools in the area, so families here have one option, and it covers everything from preschool through 8th grade.
The school's brightest spot is 3rd grade. In 2025–26, 3rd grade math scored 77.3% proficient against a state average of 62.1%, and 3rd grade ELA scored 72.7% against 63.4% — the only two of 14 assessments that beat the state that year. Third grade ELA also beat the state the year before, so it looks like a real pattern. Science is the next strongest subject, with 8th grade science landing within about 1–2 points of the state in both years. The weak spots are the upper grades: 6th grade ELA scored 28% (state 56%), a 28-point gap, and 7th grade math scored 29.4% (state 48.6%). Overall, proficiency drops sharply as grades rise — math falls from 77.3% in 3rd to 29.4% in 7th; ELA falls from 72.7% in 3rd to 28% in 6th.
Two cautions matter when reading these numbers. First, the school trails its own district on all 28 grade-subject tests across both years, by an average of 14.7 points in 2024–25 and 11.0 points in 2025–26. Second, chronic absenteeism is 33.7% versus 30.0% district-wide. The building average rose from 43.9% to 46.9% year over year, driven by math and science, while ELA stayed flat. With roughly 20 students per grade, a few students can swing results by several points, so the school's 2 → 1 → 2 star rating is best read as noise-prone rather than a clear trend.
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