Summary:
Brunswick City serves 5,931 students across eight schools — six elementary, one middle and one high school — and ranks 137th of 773 Ohio districts, at the 82nd percentile with 4 stars. Elementary schools are much smaller, ranging from 362 students at Brunswick Memorial Elementary School to 508 at Huntington Elementary School, while the secondary schools are far larger, with 1,375 at Brunswick Middle School and 1,910 at Brunswick High School.
Crestview Elementary School is the district's flagship: it is the only 5-star school in this list, ranks 83rd of 1,560 elementaries (95th percentile), improved from 133th to 127th to 83rd, and has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 6.9% against the district's 14.0%. Its 2025-26 proficiency average of 88.9% is nearly 25 points above the state average, with standout results in 4th-grade math (95.2%) and 5th-grade math (93.6%). Hickory Ridge Elementary School (246th, 84th percentile, 7.6% absenteeism, 82.1% average) and Brunswick Memorial Elementary School (241st, 85th percentile, 81.7%) also perform above the elementary district average of about 80.5%. Huntington sits near that average, while Walter Kidder Elementary School and Applewood Elementary School fall below it — Applewood's 5th-grade math of 59.0% is at the state mark but far below the district's 77.4%.
At the secondary level, Brunswick Middle ranks 223rd of 1,046 (79th percentile) and Brunswick High ranks 219th of 795 (72nd percentile), both with 4 stars; the high school's graduation rate is 98.5%. Both have 16.4% chronic absenteeism, above the district rate. The middle school's Geometry (100%) and Algebra I (98%) EOC scores reflect accelerated students; excluding those subjects, its regular grade-level average is about 70.4%, close to the district's 70.5%. The high school is strong in Biology (87.3%) and English II (82.5%) but weaker in math, where Algebra I is 61.5% and Geometry 55.3%.
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