Summary:
Pettisville Local is a small Ohio district of about 467 students spread across two schools on one campus at 232 Summit St in Pettisville: Pettisville Elementary School (grades K–6, enrollment 259) and Pettisville High School (grades 7–12, enrollment 208). The district ranks 90th of 773 Ohio districts, in the 88th percentile with 4 stars, and both schools were 4-star schools in 2025–26.
The elementary school is the steadier of the two. Its state rank percentile has been 85, 86 and 85 across 2023–24, 2024–25 and 2025–26. Chronic absenteeism is 2.0%, less than half the district's 4.1%, and every reported 2025–26 elementary test score is above the state average — led by 5th-grade math at 94.4 vs. state 59.1 and 3rd-grade math at 92.1 vs. 62.1. The narrowest margin is 3rd-grade English Language Arts at 68.4 vs. 63.4. Some elementary ELA results slipped year over year, including 6th-grade ELA falling from 89.7 to 71.4.
The high school graduates 97.4% of students, but its chronic absenteeism of 7.0% is 1.7 times the district rate and 3.5 times the elementary rate — its clearest relative concern. Its ranking has fluctuated: 94th percentile with 5 stars in 2023–24, 73rd in 2024–25, and 85th in 2025–26. Top 2025–26 scores include Biology at 94.1 vs. state 67.0, 7th-grade ELA at 92.9 vs. 62.7, American History at 91.2 vs. 73.2, and English II at 91.2 vs. 62.7. The notable weak spot is Geometry End of Course at 41.4 vs. state 43.3, down from 55.3 the prior year — the only reported high school score below state — while Algebra I jumped from 54.8 to 76.2. The high school has a lower student-teacher ratio (12.3 vs. 17.9) and higher 2018–19 per-pupil spending ($9,918 vs. $8,819). These are grade-level proficiency rates, not growth measures; small cohorts can swing widely, elementary free/reduced lunch is unavailable rather than zero, and no scores here are suppressed or bounded.
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