Barnesville Exempted Village

Barnesville Exempted Village is a small Ohio district serving 1,319 students across three schools — Barnesville Elementary School (PK–4), Barnesville Middle School (5–8), and Barnesville High School (9–12). The district as a whole ranks 282nd of 773 Ohio districts, placing it at the 64th percentile with 3 stars.

The K–8 pipeline is clearly the district's strength. The elementary school ranks in the 70th percentile with 3 stars, and all four of its current tested subjects beat the state — math 3rd at 77% vs. 62.1%, math 4th at 76.7% vs. 67.3%, ELA 3rd at 76% vs. 63.4%, and ELA 4th at 71.9% vs. 61.8%. It also has the lowest chronic absenteeism (19.1%) and the lowest student-teacher ratio (19.4) of the three schools. The middle school is the most improved, climbing from the 55th to the 69th percentile over two years, with 9 of 10 tests above state — including science 8th at 82.2% vs. 61.2% and math 8th at 79.8% vs. 52%. Its only below-state result is ELA 7th at 61.8% vs. 62.7%. Its absenteeism (26.1%) roughly matches the district's 26.3%.

The high school is the weaker link: 49th percentile, 2 stars, and 4 of 6 tests above state, but geometry is a serious concern at 35.4% vs. the state's 43.3% — the lowest current score in the data set — while English II sits slightly below state. Absenteeism rises sharply by level — 19.1% elementary, 26.1% middle, 35.8% high school. On the positive side, the high school posts a 96.8% graduation rate, and American History (83% vs. 73.2%) and Algebra I (69.1% vs. 61.6%) are bright spots. Note that free/reduced-lunch figures are blank, and spending data is from 2018–19.