Summary:
Lockland Local is a small Ohio district serving about 418 students across just two schools: Lockland Junior Senior High School for grades 7–12 (212 students) and Lockland Elementary School for grades K–6 (206 students). Statewide, the district ranks 711 of 773 schools, placing it in the 8th percentile with 0 stars, and each school holds 1 star in its recent rank history.
Families choosing between the two schools will find a similar academic picture but different attendance patterns. The high school has a higher chronic absenteeism rate at 59.2%, while the elementary school is lower at 40.6%; the district average of 50.1% is pulled upward by the high school. Test results in both schools sit well below state averages in nearly every subject, though the high school reports a 91.7% graduation rate for 2025–26. On a simple unweighted average of tested subjects, the high school moved from 28.5% to 33.9% proficient and the elementary school from 27.1% to 29.0%, leaving both roughly 26–33 percentage points behind the state average.
The clearest bright spot is high school American Government, at 72.1% proficient versus the state’s 71.6% — the only subject in this data set where a Lockland school meets or exceeds the state average, and it improved 9.6 points year over year. Elementary 5th-grade ELA reached 50% (state: 70.4%), a 30-point jump. Math is the weakest area overall: Geometry at 8.3%, Elementary Math 5 at 11.5%, and Math 7 at 14.3%. Improvement is uneven rather than consistent — 3rd-grade Math fell from 48.4% to 22.2% and 4th-grade ELA from 44.8% to 28%, even as 8th-grade ELA and Science rose. The high school spends more per student ($9,134 vs. $8,536) with a lower student–teacher ratio (15.2 vs. 17.1), though the spending figure dates to 2018–19 and free/reduced-lunch data is unavailable.
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