Summary:
Elementary schools in the Martins Ferry City district consist of a single school: Anna Marie Ayers Elementary School, which serves grades PK through 4 and enrolls 492 students. Because it is the only elementary school in the district, it effectively is the entire elementary system, and its test results at grades 3 and 4 closely mirror the district's reported scores.
Academically, the school's strongest results come in 3rd grade, where Mathematics and English Language Arts scores are above the Ohio state average in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. In 2025–2026, 3rd grade Mathematics reached 77.5% proficient versus 62.1% statewide, and 3rd grade ELA reached 74.6% versus 63.4% statewide. 4th grade is the weaker area: in 2025–2026, 4th grade Mathematics was 66.0% proficient against a state average of 67.3%, and 4th grade ELA was 56.7% against 61.8%. Three of the four tested areas improved year over year, with only 4th grade Mathematics slipping slightly. A cautious cohort comparison suggests some students may lose ground between 3rd and 4th grade, though student mobility makes that hard to confirm.
Other factors matter too. Chronic absenteeism is 27.1%, higher than the district's 24.5%, meaning more than one in four students misses enough school to be chronically absent. About 65.45% of students were eligible for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 23.4. The school earned 3 stars in each of the last three reported years and ranked in the 56th percentile in 2025–2026, above the district's 41st percentile but below its own 59th percentile in 2023–2024. Overall, this is a modestly above-median school with strong early-grade results and a clear 4th grade achievement gap to watch.
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