Summary:
Finneytown Local is a small Ohio district of roughly 1,149 students spread across just two schools: Finneytown Elementary, listed as K–8, and Finneytown Secondary Campus - Middle and High School, listed as 7–12. The two grade bands overlap, and the district as a whole sits in the bottom quartile statewide — 657th of 773 districts, the 15th percentile, 1 star.
The two schools differ sharply. Finneytown Secondary Campus posts the strongest single number in the data, a 96.4% graduation rate, and comes closest to the state average in American Government (71.1% vs 71.6%), while Algebra I improved 9.9 points to 53.4%. But its chronic absenteeism is 36.0%, nearly double the elementary's 18.8% and more than 10 points worse than the district's 26.0%. Finneytown Elementary's clearest strengths are attendance and upper-elementary reading (5th-grade ELA 51.2%, up 7.7 points; 3rd-grade ELA up 14.8 points), while its 5th-grade math result, 16.7% against a 59.1% state figure, is its weakest.
Across all 20 reported tests in 2025-26, not one result beats the state average. Math is the deeper problem: district math proficiency trails reading by roughly 16 points, about two-and-a-half times the state's own subject gap, and 7th-grade math (9.3% vs 48.6% state) is the lowest figure reported in both years. Momentum is negative at both schools; the secondary fell from the 35th to the 21st percentile and from 2 stars to 1. Notably, the school with the better staffing ratio (15.0 vs 18.5 students per teacher) has the worse attendance and the steepest decline, and with free/reduced lunch unreported for both schools, there is no way to weigh these results against student poverty.
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