Summary:
Reading, Ohio is served by two public schools in the Reading Community City district: Reading Elementary School, which serves grades PK–6 with 770 students, and Reading Junior Senior High School, which serves grades 7–12 with 654 students. There is no separate middle school, so the junior/senior high houses both middle-grade and high-school students.
The two schools perform quite differently. The Reading Junior Senior High School is the stronger of the two, ranking around the middle of Ohio high schools at the 50th percentile and posting a 97.1% graduation rate. It beats state averages in Algebra I (78.9% vs. 61.6%), American Government (79.2% vs. 71.6%), American History (76.3% vs. 73.2%), English II (66.9% vs. 62.7%), and 8th grade ELA and Science. Its weak spots are Geometry (33.6% vs. 43.3%), 7th grade math (37.7% vs. 48.6%), 8th grade math (37.3% vs. 52.0%), and 7th grade ELA (54.7% vs. 62.7%). Chronic absenteeism is 38.1%, notably higher than the district's 30.8%.
The Reading Elementary School sits around the 34th–35th percentile with 2 stars in each of the past three years, and its results trail the state in 8 of 9 tested subjects. Its bright spots are attendance — 24.4% chronic absenteeism, lower than the district — and 4th grade ELA at 62.2% vs. state 61.8%. Its largest gaps are 5th grade science (42.5% vs. 62.7%) and 6th grade math (39.1% vs. 56.2%). Overall, the district's 36th-percentile, 2-star rating reflects the elementary profile more than the high school's, making this a split system.
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