Summary:
Washington Park Community School is the only school in this area — a single-school district with 162 students in grades K–8 in Newburgh Heights. The area summary lists one elementary school and no middle, high, or alternative schools, even though the school itself serves middle grades. Its district, Washington Park Community School, ranks 685th of 773 Ohio districts (11th percentile), and the school has earned one star in each of the last three years. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, so no poverty comparison is possible from this file.
The most important thing for parents to know is that this school performs very differently by grade. Fourth grade is a genuine bright spot, beating the state average in both reading and math in both years: 86.4% vs. 61.8% in ELA and 77.3% vs. 67.3% in math in 2025-26, with similar results in 2024-25. Third-grade ELA also edged past the state once. But grades 5 through 8 run far below state — math and ELA combined in those grades average 12.9% and 21.0%, against roughly 62% statewide — and 6th grade is the lowest point, at 5.3% in both subjects. The drop from 4th to 5th grade repeated in both years, which suggests a pattern rather than one unusual class.
Overall, about 31% of tests met proficiency against a state average near 60%, and results were flat while the state improved slightly. The most alarming number is chronic absenteeism: 80.3% of students were chronically absent in 2025-26 — roughly 4 in 5. Classes are small (a student–teacher ratio of 11.5, about 14 teachers), and the school spends $6,742 per student, though that figure is from 2018-19. Grade-level cohorts are small, so a few students can swing a percentage sharply; only repeated patterns across years should be treated as meaningful.
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