Mansfield City

Mansfield City has 6 schools — 4 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high — serving about 2,953 students from PK through grade 12. The largest are Mansfield Senior High School (816, grades 8–12), Malabar Intermediate School (660, grades 3–6), and Sherman Elementary School (613, PK–2); the smallest is Mansfield Spanish Immersion School (220, K–8). The district is rated 33rd percentile / 2 stars overall, but school-level ratings vary widely.

Mansfield Spanish Immersion School is the standout: 2025–2026 rank 190 of 1,560, 88th percentile / 4 stars, with prior 5-star and 4-star years. It has the lowest chronic absenteeism (9.0% vs district 25.6%), lowest student-teacher ratio (10.2), highest per-student spending ($11,654), and proficiency above state in every listed 2025–2026 test, such as ELA grade 5 100% vs 70.4%, math grade 3 95.7% vs 62.1%, and ELA grade 3 92.6% vs 63.4%. In contrast, Mansfield Middle School is 10th percentile / 1 star, Malabar Intermediate School 18th / 1 star, Mansfield Senior High School 19th / 1 star, and Springmill STEM Elementary 23rd / 1 star. Sherman Elementary School has no current rank; its old 2006–2007 rank was 5th / 0 stars.

Other bright spots are narrow. Mansfield Middle School’s Algebra I proficiency is 89.5% vs district 38.3% and state 61.6%, but math grade 8 is 9.8%, math grade 7 13.3%, and science grade 8 12.9%. Mansfield Senior High School graduates 93.7% but has Geometry 16.8%, Algebra I 31.1%, and chronic absenteeism 29.8%. Springmill STEM Elementary has ELA grade 5 67.7%, math grade 3 55%, ELA grade 3 55%, and absenteeism 19.1%, but math grade 5 16.1% and science grade 5 22.6%. Across the district, absenteeism ranges from 9.0% to 29.8%, student-teacher ratios from 10.2 to 15.1, and 2018–2019 per-student spending from $8,116 to $11,654. Free/reduced lunch data is blank, so poverty context is unavailable; Sherman Elementary School has no current test scores because it serves PK–2. Parents should compare school-level results, not just the district rating.