Summary:
Shadyside Local is a three-school Ohio district serving students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, with 699 students split among Jefferson Ave Elementary School (PK–2, 224 students), Leona Ave Middle School (grades 3–6, 190 students), and Shadyside High School (grades 7–12, 285 students). The district ranks 144 of 773 Ohio schools, placing it in the 81st percentile with 4 stars, making it a strong performer overall. Two labeling quirks are worth knowing: Leona Ave is named "Middle" but is typed as an elementary school, and Shadyside High houses grades 7 and 8 alongside the high school grades.
Shadyside High School shows the district's clearest improvement. It climbed from 526 of 864 (39th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–24 to 275 of 855 (68th percentile, 3 stars) and then 176 of 795 (78th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–26. All 11 reported test areas were above the Ohio average, with a simple average proficiency of about 77.7% versus a state average of about 60.2%. The largest margins were 8th Grade Mathematics (83.3 vs. 52.0), 7th Grade English Language Arts (93.0 vs. 62.7), 7th Grade Mathematics (76.7 vs. 48.6), and American Government (90.7 vs. 71.6). Its graduation rate is 97.8%, matching the district. The caution is chronic absenteeism at 33.0%, the highest of the three schools and above the district's 25.5%.
Leona Ave remains a 4-star school but is cooling, slipping from the 86th to the 79th to the 70th percentile. It was above state in 8 of 9 tests, including 5th Grade ELA (89.7 vs. 70.4), 5th Grade Mathematics (76.9 vs. 59.1), 6th Grade ELA (70.3 vs. 56.0), and 5th Grade Science (76.9 vs. 62.7), but 3rd Grade Mathematics fell to 57.9 against a state 62.1. Its chronic absenteeism, 19.2%, is the lowest of the three. Jefferson Ave has no state test scores because it serves PK–2, but its absenteeism is 20.4% and its student-teacher ratio is 16.0. The only spending figures available are from 2018–19 and are too dated to draw conclusions from. Note that Shadyside High's free/reduced lunch value is unknown, not zero.
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