Summary:
Trimble Local is a small Ohio district serving roughly 687 students across three schools in one K–12 feeder pattern: Trimble Elementary School (K–6, 333 students), Trimble Junior High (7–8, 172 students), and Trimble High School (9–12, 182 students). The district ranks 686 of 773 in Ohio — the 11th percentile — and all three schools hold a 1-star rating, with current building rank percentiles of only 14 to 19.
Math is the clearest and most consistent weakness. Trimble Junior High posts the district's most extreme result, 8th-grade math at 3.0% against a state rate of 52.0%, and has the lowest rank percentile at 14. Trimble High School has Algebra I at 13.8% versus the state's 61.6% and Geometry at 10.4% versus 43.3%. The elementary school's 4th-grade math is 25.0%. Attendance splits along building lines: chronic absenteeism is 31.4% at the elementary — below the district's 36.4% — but 42.7% at the high school and 43.2% at the junior high. There are real bright spots, including high-school Biology at 64.0%, just 3.0 points below the state, and 3rd-grade ELA at 55.6%.
Graduation is a relative strength: the high school graduates 90.2% of students, close to the district's 90.6%, even though its math proficiency is very low. The high school also has the smallest student-teacher ratio (10.1) and the highest per-student spending ($11,639 from 2018–2019), so class size and spending alone do not explain the outcome pattern. Junior-high Algebra I was a standout at 73.7% in 2024–2025 before falling to 43.8%. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are unknown for all three schools, and no state comparison exists for graduation or absenteeism.
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