Summary:
Elementary families in Niles City have two schools to consider: Niles Primary School, serving grades PK–2 with 455 students, and Niles Intermediate School, serving grades 2–7 with 452 students. Together they enroll 907 students, split almost evenly, overlapping at grade 2 and spanning PK–7 as a pair. The district as a whole ranks 509th of 773 Ohio districts, in the 34th percentile with 2 stars, so both schools share a below-average district rating.
Niles Intermediate School is the standout on measured achievement and attendance. It is the only one of the two with recent test scores, and math is its clearest strength: in 2025–2026, all three tested math grades beat the state, led by 4th grade math at 78.8%, 11.5 points above the state. Science peaked in 2024–2025 at 82.0%, 18.6 points above the state, and stayed above state in 2025–2026. English language arts is the weak spot — 3rd grade ELA in 2025–2026 was 52.4%, 11.0 points below the state. Its chronic absenteeism is 23.3%, well below Niles Primary's 30.9% and the district's 35.9%. Even so, its rank slipped from the 58th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–2024 to the 50th percentile and 2 stars in 2025–2026.
Niles Primary School stands out instead on resources: a student-teacher ratio of 15.6 versus 19.6 at Niles Intermediate, and per-student spending of $8,604 versus $8,275, though those spending figures are from 2018–2019. It has no current test scores or recent rank history, and free/reduced lunch data is not populated for either school, so the most reliable comparisons between the two are attendance, class size, and spending.
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