Summary:
St Marys City, Ohio is home to four schools — two elementary, one middle, and one high school — serving roughly 1,984 students across grades K–12, with the St Marys City district ranked 388th of 773 schools at the 50th percentile with 3 stars.
Among the four, St Marys West Intermediate School is the strongest current academic performer, beating the state in six of seven tested areas in 2025–2026 — including 78.2% proficiency in 5th grade science and 75.2% in 5th grade math — while also posting the lowest chronic absenteeism at 6.1%, well below the district's 11.4%. St. Marys Middle School is the math standout, with 6th grade math at 75.2% and an unusual 100% Algebra I proficiency in both years, though its 7th grade math (38.6%) falls 10 points below the state. St Marys Memorial High School has the best graduation rate at 99.3% but the lowest current rank — 501st of 795, 37th percentile, 2 stars — and the highest absenteeism at 15.7%. St. Marys East Primary School serves grades K–2 and has no current state test scores; it spends the most per student ($9,895) and has 9.6% absenteeism.
Two patterns stand out for parents: attendance and achievement tend to move together across these schools, and the Algebra I gap between the middle school (100%) and the high school (54.1%) likely reflects different groups of test takers rather than a real instructional divide. Note too that West Intermediate is trending downward — from 4 stars to 3 — even though it still outperforms the state, and the middle school's 99.33% free/reduced-lunch rate is a striking outlier against the elementaries' roughly 52%.
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