Summary:
Nelsonville-York City serves roughly 976 students across three schools: Nelsonville-York Elementary School (PK–5, 477 students), Nelsonville-York Junior High School (6–8, 239 students), and Nelsonville-York High School (9–12, 260 students). The district ranks 616 of 773 schools, placing it in the 20th percentile with 1 star, and all three schools fall below the 50th percentile.
Nelsonville-York Elementary School is the relative bright spot: it is the only school with 2 stars, ranks in the 42nd–44th percentile, and is at or above the state in 5 of 6 math comparisons across 2024–25 and 2025–26. It also has the lowest chronic absenteeism (30.0%) and the lowest student/teacher ratio (11.6). Nelsonville-York Junior High School is overall low-ranked at 22nd–27th percentile, but its Algebra I End-of-Course proficiency of 88.2% in 2025–26 — up from 75.0% — is the highest test score in the data set. Nelsonville-York High School ranks lowest (14th–21st percentile, 1 star), yet reports a graduation rate of 89.2%.
Concerns are concentrated in the secondary grades. The high school's Algebra I proficiency is 8.8% and Geometry 16.2%, both far below state, with Algebra I falling from 23.3% the year before. Chronic absenteeism is 44.1% at the high school and 42.0% at the junior high, both above the district's 36.8%, while the elementary school sits lower at 30.0%. The elementary school's weakness is English Language Arts, below state on every test shown, including 4th-grade ELA at 46.2%. Free/reduced-price lunch data is blank, so poverty comparisons cannot be made, and spending figures are from 2018–19.
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