Summary:
Talawanda City is a five-school Ohio district — three elementary schools serving PK–5, one middle school for grades 6–8, and one high school for grades 9–12 — enrolling 2,875 students. The district ranks 343 of 773 in Ohio, at the 56th percentile with 3 stars, and school-level rank percentiles range from 45 at Bogan Elementary to 72 at Talawanda Middle School.
Talawanda Middle School is the academic standout, the only school with 4 stars and a 72nd-percentile rank, and it beats the state in every reported 2025–2026 test — including 8th Grade Science at 74% and 6th Grade Math at 70.6%. Its Geometry (100%) and Algebra I (96.7%) results come from accelerated students taking high-school-level courses, so they don't reflect the whole school. Maude Marshall Elementary School is the strongest elementary, averaging about 70.2% across seven tests with 3rd Grade ELA at 80.7%, while Kramer Elementary School improved most, rising from the 49th to the 59th percentile. Talawanda High School beats the state in all six End-of-Course tests and graduates 99.6% of students, but its rank percentile slid from 72 to 51 over three years.
Bogan Elementary is the lowest-ranked school (45th percentile, 2 stars, roughly 61.6% average) and has the highest student/teacher ratio (20.5) and lowest per-student spending ($9,386) — yet it also has the district's best attendance, with 12.9% chronic absenteeism. Absenteeism runs higher at the middle (20.4%) and high school (19.6%) than at any elementary. Fifth-grade science is a district-wide soft spot, at 58.9% versus 62.7% statewide. Kramer shows outcomes don't track poverty in a simple line: it has the district's highest free/reduced-lunch rate (44.69%) yet ranks above the district and state elementary averages.
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