Summary:
McComb Local is a small Ohio district with just two schools — McComb Local Elementary School, serving grades K–6 with 305 students, and McComb Local Junior/Senior High School, serving grades 7–12 with 282 students — for a combined enrollment of about 587. The district is ranked 400 of 773 Ohio districts (48th percentile) with 2 stars, even though both individual schools earned 3 stars in their own 2025–26 rankings.
Academically, the two schools have opposite profiles. The elementary school is the district's bright spot, beating the state in 5th grade Science (83.3% vs 62.7%), 4th grade Mathematics (87.0% vs 67.3%) and 5th grade Mathematics (78.6% vs 59.1%), with 6 of 9 tested areas above state in 2025–26 and all 9 above state in 2024–25. Its chronic absenteeism is just 7.1%, well below the district's 12.8%. The high school shines in social studies (American Government 84.5% and American History 84.8% vs roughly 72–73% state), English II (75.0% vs 62.7%) and Biology (71.7% vs 67.0%), and reports a 100.0% graduation rate. Math is its weakness: Geometry 33.3% vs 43.3% state and Algebra I 50.0% vs 61.6%, with 7th and 8th grade math also below state. Its chronic absenteeism is 19.8%, nearly three times the elementary school's rate.
For parents, the biggest pattern to watch is math: elementary students often exceed state proficiency while high school math results fall below state, suggesting a possible transition gap between grade bands. The elementary school performs well despite a free/reduced-lunch rate of 84.92% — the high school's rate is not reported, so no comparison is possible there. Rankings have swung widely at the high school, from 61st percentile in 2023–24 to 36th in 2024–25 to 53rd in 2025–26, which is common in small schools. Per-student spending figures ($10,107 elementary, $7,372 high school) date to 2018–19 and should be treated cautiously.
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