Summary:
Wapakoneta City is a district in western Ohio with five schools serving PK–12 — two elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school — enrolling about 2,786 students. The district is ranked 326th of 773 in Ohio, at the 58th percentile with 3 stars. The largest campuses are Wapakoneta High School (804 students) and Wapakoneta Elementary (800), which together enroll about 58% of the district's students.
Academically, the middle grades are the district's strength. Wapakoneta Middle School ranks 235th of 1,046 middle schools at the 78th percentile with 4 stars — the only 4-star school in the district — with 6th grade math at 77.5% proficient versus the state's 56.2%. Wapakoneta Elementary rebounded to the 66th percentile (3 stars) from 49th the prior year and beat district and state averages in all four tested subjects. Wapakoneta Junior High posted 100% Algebra I proficiency versus the state's 61.6%, but its overall rank slipped to the 59th percentile and 8th grade ELA was slightly below state. Wapakoneta High School held steady at the 60th percentile with a 96.1% graduation rate and strong Government, History, Biology, and English II scores, though Algebra I at 55.3% trails the state. Cridersville Elementary School is the lowest-ranked at the 32nd percentile with 2 stars, below district and state in every tested subject.
Attendance is uneven: Wapakoneta Elementary has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 7.9%, while Wapakoneta High School has the highest at 25.1%, 9.7 points above the district's 15.4%; Wapakoneta Junior High is also above district at 18.2%. Cridersville trails Wapakoneta Elementary in every subject (4th grade ELA: 38.5% vs. 71.2%) and has the district's highest free/reduced lunch rate at 60.74%, yet also its most favorable student-teacher ratio, 18.9. Wapakoneta High School has the highest per-student spending ($9,291) and Wapakoneta Junior High the lowest ($4,491). Wapakoneta Junior High's free/reduced lunch figure is not reported, and spending data date to 2018–19, so those figures should be read with caution.
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