Summary:
East Palestine City is a small Ohio district with three schools — one elementary, one middle, and one high school — serving roughly 949 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, and the district as a whole is rated 2 stars, placing it 495th of 773 Ohio districts, or the 36th percentile.
Each school is on a different trajectory. East Palestine Middle School is the bright spot: its rank climbed from 704th of 1046 (33rd percentile) in 2023–24 to 543rd of 1046 (48th percentile) in 2025–26, and its Algebra I result of 89.5% proficient in 2025–26 far exceeds the district's 48.3% and the state's 61.6%. East Palestine Elementary School is moving the other way, falling from 454th of 1577 (71st percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–24 to 823rd of 1560 (47th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–26; grade 4 consistently beats the state while grade 3 consistently trails it. East Palestine High School ranks lowest by percentile, 32nd (539th of 795, 2 stars), down from the 54th percentile in 2023–24.
Strengths include middle school Algebra I, elementary grade 4 math and reading, a high school graduation rate of 94.3%, and high school social studies — American Government at 83.5% and American History at 80.0%, both above the state. The clearest weaknesses are high school math, with Geometry at 18.8% versus the state's 43.3% and Algebra I at 29.3% versus 61.6%, along with middle school grade 8 Science at 39.4% versus 61.2%, and chronic absenteeism, which rises from 16.7% at the elementary school to 24.1% at the middle school and 36.8% at the high school. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all three schools, so that information is unknown.
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