Summary:
Bath Elementary School is the only elementary school in Bath Local, Ohio, serving students in grades PK–5 in Lima with an enrollment of 727. Because it is the district's sole elementary school, the district's elementary results closely mirror the school's: in 2024-2025 the two matched exactly, and in 2025-2026 only 3rd-grade math and 3rd-grade ELA showed small differences.
The school performs at a top-decile level statewide. It ranked 158 out of 1,560 Ohio elementary schools in 2025-2026 (90th percentile, 4 stars), after 181 out of 1,558 (88th percentile, 4 stars) in 2024-2025 and 111 out of 1,577 (93rd percentile, 5 stars) in 2023-2024. The district itself ranks 84th of 773 Ohio districts (89th percentile, 4 stars). Across the seven reported grade-and-subject tests, the school averaged 85.7% proficient in 2025-2026 versus 63.8% statewide, up slightly from 84.5% versus 63.5% the year before. Every reported subject and grade came in above the state average, with the smallest margin in 5th-grade ELA (+4.8 points) and the largest in 5th-grade math (+27.7 points). Subject-group advantages were +25.4 points in math, +17.2 in ELA, and +24.9 in 5th-grade science.
Math and science are particular strengths. Fourth-grade math held steady at 91.0% in both years, 5th-grade science was 90.6% and then 87.6%, and 5th-grade math jumped 10.2 points from 76.6% to 86.8%. Fifth-grade ELA is the relative watch point: it was the lowest reported school score in both years at 75.8% and 75.2%, still above state but by only 4.8 points. Other context: 51.31% of students qualified for free/reduced lunch in 2024-2025, chronic absenteeism was 10.5% school-wide versus 11.3% for the district, the student-teacher ratio was 17.3, and per-student spending was $8,067 in 2018-2019.
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