Summary:
Worthington City is a suburban district just north of Columbus, Ohio, serving roughly 10,553 students across 18 schools — 11 elementary, 5 middle, and 2 high schools covering kindergarten through 12th grade — and it ranks 169th of 773 Ohio districts, a 78th percentile, 4-star district.
The strongest results cluster in the elementary and middle grades. Bluffsview Elementary School ranks in the 96th percentile with 5 stars, the district's top school in 2025-2026, with 5th grade ELA at 98.2 and math at 96.3. Evening Street Elementary School (94th percentile, 5 stars) has the lowest chronic absenteeism (2.2%) and lowest free/reduced lunch rate (2.86%), while Worthington Hills Elementary School (89th percentile) is consistently strong. Among middle schools, Phoenix Middle School (90th percentile, 5 stars) is the smallest at 154 students with the lowest student/teacher ratio (10.6), and Kilbourne Middle School (88th) and Mccord Middle School (83rd) are strong as well. Advanced middle-school math is a district hallmark: Worthingway Middle School and Phoenix Middle School both reached 100 in Algebra I, and Kilbourne Middle School reached 100 in Integrated Math II, far above district and state averages.
Areas to watch sit mainly at the high school level and in the lowest-ranked elementary school. Slate Hill Elementary School ranks in the 38th percentile with 2 stars, the district's highest free/reduced lunch rate (58.66%) and 15.0% chronic absenteeism. Thomas Worthington High School (85th percentile, 94.7% graduation rate) and Worthington Kilbourne High School (78th percentile, 95.5%) both have chronic absenteeism near 25%, well above the district's 15.2%, and trail the district in most math subjects. Notably, Perry Middle School has a high free/reduced lunch rate (44.7%) yet ranks in the 77th percentile, up from the 59th two years earlier. Spending and staffing figures are older (2018-2019) and show no simple link to outcomes.
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