Summary:
Willard City has three public schools — one elementary serving PK–5, one middle school serving grades 5–8, and one high school serving grades 9–12 — with a combined enrollment of about 1,183 students and no alternative school reported. The district, Willard City, ranks 458th of 773 Ohio districts (41st percentile, 2 stars), and all three schools earned 2 stars in 2025–26. Free/reduced lunch data is not reported, so economic context can't be compared here.
Each school has a distinct strength. Willard Middle School posts the standout result in the dataset: Algebra I proficiency of 88% in 2025–26 and 100% in 2024–25, far above the state's 61.6% and 59.4%, and its 7th grade ELA (68%) also beats state. Willard Elementary School shines in the upper grades, with 4th grade math at 79.1% (state 67.3%) and 4th grade ELA at 72.1% (state 61.8%), plus large 5th grade gains in math (45.2% to 66.2%) and ELA (58.3% to 70.1%). Willard High School graduates 95.8% of students and beats the state in five of six End-of-Course subjects, including a Geometry rebound from 25% to 52%.
The main concerns differ by level. The middle school has the highest chronic absenteeism at 28.4%, versus the district's 21.1%, the high school's 20.0%, and the elementary's 17.2%, and its rank slipped from 3 stars to 2. The elementary's 3rd grade math (42.4% vs state 62.1%) is its clear weak spot. The high school's Algebra I (51.4% vs state 61.6%) remains below state despite improvement. On resources, 2018–19 per-student spending was $12,009 at the high school versus $8,989 and $8,919 at the elementary and middle schools, with the high school also having the lowest student-teacher ratio (12.5 vs 13.5).
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