United Schools Columbus

United Schools Columbus is the only school in the United Schools Columbus district, so school-level and district-level results describe the same student body. It is labeled an elementary school but actually serves grades K–8, and it enrolls 838 students at 617 W State St in Columbus — a large building for that label, working out to roughly 90 or more students per grade if students were spread evenly.

On the 2025-26 state tests, the school trails Ohio in every subject and at every grade: 14 of 14 tests fall below the state average, with an average gap of about 21 percentage points. The strongest results are 8th grade science at 54.4% against a state figure of 61.2% — a gap of only 6.8 points — and 5th grade ELA at 61.1% against 70.4%. The clearest weaknesses are in middle-grades math: 6th grade math is 18.2% against 56.2% (about 38 points behind) and 7th grade math is 17.3% against 48.6%. Within this one building, performance ranges from 61.1% down to 17.3% in the same year.

Results are moving in both directions. Eighth grade improved in all three tested subjects, and 4th grade math and 5th grade ELA also gained ground — but 3rd grade slipped in both math (−11.2) and ELA (−9.1), and 6th and 7th grade math declined sharply. Across all 14 tests, the school fell slightly further behind overall. It has held a 1-star rating in every year of rank history, placing it in roughly the bottom fifth of ranked Ohio schools (rank 1255 of 1560 in 2025-26). About 49.1% of students are chronically absent, and the student–teacher ratio is 39.9, both notable context. The only spending figure available is $7,368 from 2018-19, and free/reduced lunch data is missing, so those topics cannot be assessed from this file.