Summary:
Lancaster City is a nine-school Ohio district — six elementary schools, two junior highs, and one high school serving about 6,036 students — rated 473rd of 773 Ohio districts (39th percentile, 2 stars). The system funnels into a single 9–12 campus: Lancaster High School alone enrolls 1,995 students, one in three in the district. Bridges, with 18 students in grades 2–8, is a small specialized setting. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported for any school, and per-pupil spending figures date to 2018–2019, so spending comparisons are directional only.
Tarhe Trails Elementary is the district's brightest spot: 3 stars, the lowest chronic absenteeism at 12.5% — less than half the 26.3% district rate — and an average of 68.8% proficiency across seven tested measures, the only elementary above the 63.8% state average. General Sherman Junior High is the top middle school (58th percentile, 3 stars) with 100% Algebra I proficiency, though that reflects a small accelerated cohort. Medill Elementary posts the second-best elementary proficiency average (59.9%) on the district's lowest elementary spending ($7,410). Thomas Ewing Junior High has climbed from the 44th to the 52nd percentile.
Absenteeism climbs steeply with grade level: every elementary is below the 26.3% district rate, but Lancaster High School is highest at 36.1%, and its ranking percentile has fallen three years running (46 → 43 → 36). Tallmadge Elementary (53.8% average proficiency) and Gorsuch West Elementary (30.7% in 5th-grade math, the lowest figure in the dataset) sit at the bottom, while Mt. Pleasant Elementary dropped from the 44th to the 35th percentile. Districtwide, 5th grade is the weakest tested grade and 8th grade the strongest. Neither spending nor class size lines up with results, and every school is rated 2 or 3 stars — no severe outliers in either direction.
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