Summary:
Mount Gilead Exempted Village is a small Ohio district with three schools serving roughly 975 students: Park Avenue Elementary School (PK–5, 475 students), Mt Gilead Middle School (6–8, 226 students), and Mt Gilead High School (9–12, 274 students).
The Mount Gilead Exempted Village district is rated 2 stars and ranks 420th of 773 Ohio districts — the 46th percentile — but that overall figure hides real differences among its schools. The high school performs above the district average, the middle school sits near it, and the elementary school is below it but improving.
Mt Gilead High School is the strongest performer: 3 stars and the 67th percentile in 2025–2026, a 95.9% graduation rate, the district's lowest chronic absenteeism (14.4%), the smallest classes (10.5 students per teacher), and the highest per-student spending ($10,016). It beat the state in 5 of 6 End-of-Course tests, led by American History (90.4%), Biology (80.8%), and English II (76.3%); Algebra I (60.0%) is its weak spot. Mt Gilead Middle School posted an exceptional 93.8% in Algebra I — far above the 68.9% district and 61.6% state rates — and 8th grade math jumped 26 points to 57.3%. But 7th grade math (34.4%) and ELA (48.6%) trail the state, and its absenteeism is the district's highest at 18.0%.
Park Avenue Elementary School improved in 6 of 7 subjects and rose to 2 stars (35th percentile), with 5th grade ELA (71.0%) and 4th grade math (70.1%) now above state. Still, 5th grade math remains 22 points below state and 3rd grade ELA 18 points below. The school with the highest poverty rate, largest classes, and lowest spending also has the weakest outcomes — a pattern worth watching, though the data cannot show cause and effect.
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