Heir Force Community School

Heir Force Community School is the only school in this area — a K–8 school in Lima, OH serving 204 students, and it forms its own district, Heir Force Community School. Because there is just one school, there are no peer schools to compare it against, so everything below describes that single school. Its overall rating is 1 star, and it ranks 647 of 773 (16th percentile). Its state rank among Ohio schools has stayed in the bottom quartile: 1,196 of 1,577 (24th percentile) in 2023–2024, 1,204 of 1,558 (23rd percentile) in 2024–2025, and 1,297 of 1,560 (17th percentile) in 2025–2026 — a 1-star rating in each of those years.

Academically, the school tested below the state in all 28 school-vs-state comparisons across 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Averaged across the 14 reported grade-subject tests each year, proficiency was 38.0% in 2024–2025 versus 59.2% statewide (21.2 points below), and 33.1% in 2025–2026 versus 60.1% (27.0 points below), so the gap widened. The brightest spots were in the middle grades: Math 6th grade reached 55.6% in 2025–2026 against the state's 56.2% — just 0.6 points below — and ELA 7th grade rose to 56.0% from 40.0%, the largest one-year gain in the data. The biggest gaps were in early grades and science: Math 3rd grade at 0% versus 62.1% statewide, ELA 5th grade at 26.3% versus 70.4%, ELA 3rd grade at 20.8% versus 63.4%, and Science 8th grade at 26.1% versus 61.2%.

Two non-academic figures stand out: chronic absenteeism of 31.6% in 2025–2026 and a 34:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025. Per-student spending of $7,276 is from 2018–2019, and free/reduced lunch data is not reported, so resource and socioeconomic context is limited. With only 204 students across grades K–8, grade-level groups are small and percentages can swing widely from year to year; results such as the 0% Math 3rd grade figure are exact reported values but should be interpreted with caution.