Urbana City

Urbana City serves roughly 1,779 students across three public schools — Urbana Elementary School (PK–5, 864 students), Urbana Junior High School (6–8, 387 students) and Urbana High School (9–12, 528 students) — with no alternative school in the district. The district is ranked 560 of 773 Ohio districts, at the 28th percentile with 1 star, even though each school's recent rank history shows 2 stars. All three schools serve a high-poverty population, with free/reduced lunch rates between 62.88% and 65.51%, and similar per-student spending of $9,590 to $9,916.

Each school has a distinct bright spot. Urbana Junior High School produces the district's strongest single result: Algebra I proficiency of 85.3%, far above the district's 46.9% and the state's 61.6%, and it has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 16.1. Urbana High School performs above the state in American Government (75.3% vs. 71.6%) and Geometry (46.3% vs. 43.3%), with a graduation rate of 91.2%. Urbana Elementary School has the best attendance in the district, with chronic absenteeism of 13.6% against the district's 18.7%.

Attendance and math are the biggest concerns. Chronic absenteeism climbs with grade level — 13.6% at the elementary school, 19.5% at the junior high and 28.1% at the high school. High school Algebra I proficiency is only 28.9% versus the state's 61.6%, a 32.7-point gap. The high school's unweighted average across tested end-of-course subjects fell from 62.9% in 2024–2025 to 56.8% in 2025–2026, and its rank slipped from the 48th to the 31st percentile. The elementary school's 4th-grade math sits 29.8 points below state and 4th-grade ELA 16.0 points below, while its 3rd-grade results are close to state levels.