Summary:
Wooster, Ohio, is home to nine schools — five elementary, two middle, and two high schools — serving about 4,132 students across two districts: Wooster City (3,061 students, 74.1%) and Triway Local (1,071 students, 25.9%). Triway Local is the higher-rated district overall, at the 73rd percentile with 4 stars, while Wooster City sits at the 66th percentile with 3 stars.
The strongest schools are Kean Elementary School, ranked at the 89th percentile with 4 stars and chronic absenteeism of only 3.4%, and Triway Elementary School, at the 79th percentile with 4 stars, where every reported 2025–26 test is above the state average. Triway Middle School (73rd percentile, 4 stars) posts Algebra I End-of-Course proficiency of 100% in both years, far above the state's 61.6%. Parkview Elementary School (35th to 71st percentile) and Melrose Elementary School (48th to 70th percentile) are the clearest improvement stories.
Cornerstone Elementary School is the most challenged, at the 37th percentile with 2 stars and the highest reported free/reduced lunch rate at 79.54%; all of its 2025–26 tests fall below state and district averages. Triway High School graduates 100% of its students but slipped from the 87th to the 63rd percentile, with the highest chronic absenteeism in the list at 23.9%. Wooster High School graduates 98.2% and improved English II from 55.0% to 71.1% and Geometry from 36.9% to 49.5%. Absenteeism rises with school level — about 9.2% in elementary, 12.4% in middle, and 21.9% in high school — and spending and class size show no simple relationship with outcomes.
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