Summary:
Crestview Local is a small, high-performing district in Columbiana, Ohio, serving 1,136 K–12 students across exactly three schools — one elementary, one middle, and one high school — and it ranks in the 76th percentile of Ohio districts with a 4-star rating.
All three buildings are strong: Crestview Middle School is the momentum leader, reaching the 80th percentile statewide in 2025-26 (up from 72nd and 73rd) and posting the district's largest average proficiency gap over the state (+11.1 points). Its Algebra I End of Course result of 100% proficient stands out as an accelerated middle-school cohort. Crestview High School pairs elite outcomes — a 100.0% graduation rate and the district's top scores in American Government (87.8%), American History (81.1%), English II (79.4%), and Biology (79.2%) — with the district's worst attendance problem, a 25.7% chronic absenteeism rate versus 14.7% at the elementary and 16.7% at the middle. Crestview Elementary School is the only building trending down: its rank percentile slipped 75 → 70 → 67 and its star rating fell from 4 to 3, even though all four of its tested subjects remain above state, averaging +10.8 points.
Across the district, 20 of 21 tested results in 2025-26 beat the state average, despite above-average poverty — 50.72% free/reduced lunch at the elementary, 40.87% at the middle, and 29.86% at the high school. The lone exception is 5th grade science, which fell from 86.9% to 53.7% (now 9.0 points below state). Student–teacher ratios are nearly identical across all three schools (15.9, 15.9, 15.4).
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