Summary:
Margaretta Local is a small Ohio district with just two schools: Margaretta Elementary School, which serves PK–5, and Margaretta High School, which serves grades 6–12 and therefore also reports middle-grade results because the district has no separate middle school. Each school reports 536 students, for a combined enrollment of about 1,072. The district is ranked 221 of 773 in Ohio, placing it in the 71st percentile with 4 stars.
Both schools outperform the state in most tested subjects — 18 of 20 subject tests were above state in 2025–2026. Margaretta Elementary School has the single strongest result in the data: 4th grade math at 90.3% proficient versus 67.3% statewide in 2025–2026, and 96.9% versus 69.1% the year before, roughly 23–28 points above state. Its overall average proficiency was 74.8% in 2025–2026, slightly ahead of Margaretta High School at 71.0%, though the high school improved about 4.4 points from the prior year. The high school's strengths are science and history — 8th grade science 83.5% versus 61.2% state, Biology 82.9% versus 67.0%, American Government 82.1% versus 71.6% — along with a 98.8% graduation rate.
The main watch items are at the high school and in early elementary math. Chronic absenteeism at Margaretta High School is 24.1%, compared with 19.9% districtwide and 14.9% at Margaretta Elementary School — a 9.2-point gap. High school Geometry was below state in both years (40.5% versus 43.3%), the only high school subject below state both times. At the elementary, 3rd grade math fell from 70% to 56.9%, below the state's 62.1%, and the school's state percentile slipped from 78 to 72 to 69 over three years even as its test scores stayed strong. The district's 71st percentile overall sits above both schools' latest individual percentiles (high school 63rd, elementary 69th).
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