Summary:
New Lexington School District in Perry County, Ohio contains just one high school — New Lexington High School, which serves grades 9–12 with 493 students at 2547 Panther Dr NE in New Lexington. Because it is the district's only high school, there are no in-district peers to compare it against, so the most useful benchmarks are the district overall and the state of Ohio. The district itself is rated 2 stars, ranked 490 out of 773 districts, placing it at the 37th percentile.
The strongest results at New Lexington High School come from English II. In 2025–2026, 73.1% of students were proficient — 10.4 percentage points above Ohio's 62.7% — a dramatic jump from 53.8% the year before, when the school trailed the state. The graduation rate is also high at 97.7%, matching the district. Biology, American History, and Geometry all improved year over year, and Algebra I proficiency of 65.3% is 3.7 points above the state, though 5.2 points below the district's 70.5% — a gap suggesting the district figure includes Algebra I test-takers beyond this high school.
The clearest academic concern is Geometry: only 24.8% of students were proficient in 2025–2026 against 43.3% statewide, a gap of 18.5 percentage points, and the gap was even wider the prior year. Chronic absenteeism is 33.8%, which is 9.1 percentage points above the district's 24.7% and may relate to weaker outcomes, though the data does not prove that. The school holds a 2-star rating in each of the last three years, sitting at the 34th percentile in 2025–2026 — an improvement from 32nd, but below its 40th percentile in 2023–2024. Note that free/reduced lunch data is not reported here, and spending figures date to 2018–2019.
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