Summary:
Delta Elementary School is the only elementary school in Pike-Delta-York Local, serving grades K–4 at 1099 Panther Pride Drive in Delta, Ohio, with 361 students — roughly 72 per grade level. Because it is the district's sole elementary building, the school and district figures for test scores and attendance are identical, so the state average is the only meaningful comparison point available.
In 2025-2026, Delta students outscored the state in three of the four tested subject-grades. Mathematics is the steadiest strength: third grade reached 67.1% proficient against a state mark of 62.1%, and fourth grade hit 72.2% against 67.3% — the highest proficiency figure anywhere in this data set. Third-grade reading also beat the state, 70.0% to 63.4%. The clear exception is fourth-grade English Language Arts, at 56.9% versus a state average of 61.8% — the only below-state result in the record and a 12.8-point drop from 69.7% the prior year, when the school beat the state in all four subjects.
Delta's statewide rank slid from 419 of 1,577 schools (73rd percentile, 4 stars) in 2023-2024 to 692 of 1,558 (52nd percentile, 3 stars) most recently, even though overall proficiency slipped only modestly — a sign that other Ohio schools improved faster rather than that Delta declined sharply in absolute terms. Chronic absenteeism sits at 11.4%, two points below the district's 13.4%, and 45.98% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which makes the above-state math and reading results notable. Per-student spending of $10,223 dates to 2018-2019 and should not be paired with current outcomes.
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