Summary:
Bradford Exempted Village is a small Ohio district with just two schools — Bradford Elementary School, serving grades PK–5, and Bradford High School, serving grades 6–12 — educating 513 students combined. There is no separate middle school, so the high school's results include middle-grade tests and middle/high absenteeism alongside high school outcomes, which is important when comparing the two.
The two schools are moving in opposite directions. Bradford Elementary School saw its simple test average fall from 63.2% in 2024–25 to 54.8% in 2025–26 while the state stayed near 63–64%, and its rank percentile dropped from 48 to 35. Its bright spot is 3rd-grade ELA at 73.0%, above the state's 63.4%, and its chronic absenteeism of 14.6% is the lower of the two. Bradford High School improved from 51.6% to 55.1% but remains below the state's 59.6%, and it holds the district's strongest single metric — a 94.6% graduation rate — plus above-state results in American Government (79.1% vs. 71.6%) and English II (70.7% vs. 62.7%).
Both schools earn 2 stars, and the district sits at the 31st percentile of Ohio districts, in the bottom third. Bradford High School's chronic absenteeism of 25.0% is well above the district's 19.2% and the elementary's 14.6%, and its math results are weak — Math 8 at 25.8% vs. 52.0% state and Algebra I at 48.6% vs. 61.6%. Elementary weak spots include 4th-grade ELA (36.4%), 5th-grade science (42.9%) and 5th-grade math (47.6%). Bradford High's free/reduced lunch rate is 98.77%, while the elementary's is not available. Spending is similar at about $11,100 per student (2018–19), with student-teacher ratios of 12.6 at the high school and 14.8 at the elementary.
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