Summary:
Ross Local is a high-performing Ohio district made up of five schools — three elementary, one middle, and one high school serving students from prekindergarten through 12th grade — with 2,607 students enrolled and a district ranking of 68th of 773, placing it in the 91st percentile with a 5-star rating. Enrollment is concentrated at the high school (893 students, 34.3%), followed by the middle school (628, 24.1%), with the three elementaries together enrolling 1,086 students, about 41.7% of the district.
The district's strongest results come from Ross Intermediate School and Ross Middle School, both ranked in the 93rd percentile with 5 stars in 2025-26. Ross Intermediate has held 5 stars two years running, with proficiency scores of 85.2% to 90.4% across five tests — each roughly 20 or more points above the state — and chronic absenteeism of 6.6%. Ross Middle is the fastest riser, moving from 86th percentile and 4 stars in 2023-24 to 93rd percentile and 5 stars in 2025-26, led by Math 8 at 90.4% and Science 8 at 88%. Morgan Elementary School has the lowest absenteeism (4.5%) and lowest free/reduced lunch rate (24.42%), with 3rd-grade math at 84.9% and ELA at 86.0%. Elda Elementary School has the highest poverty rate (37.61%) and the lowest scores among Ross schools, at 79.3% in both math and ELA for 3rd grade, though still above state averages.
Ross High School is the relative weak spot despite a 98.2% graduation rate: its rank percentile fell from 85% to 83% to 78% over three years, chronic absenteeism is 19.3% — nearly double the Ross Local rate of 10.3% — and English II and Biology declined. Absenteeism rises sharply with grade level, from an elementary average of about 5.3% to 8.9% in the middle school and 19.3% in the high school, making it the clearest area for intervention. Every reported 2025-26 proficiency score in the district beats the state average, student-teacher ratios are tightly clustered at 19.3 to 20.4, and the only spending figures available are from 2018-19, so they should not be read as a current signal.
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