Summary:
New London Local is a small, single-campus district in New London, Ohio, serving roughly 892 students in PK–12 across three schools: New London Elementary School (PK–5, 464 students), New London Middle School (6–8, 204 students) and New London High School (9–12, 224 students). As a district it is rated 2 stars, ranking 434th of 773 Ohio districts, but that single rating hides real differences between the buildings.
New London High School is the academic standout: 3 stars (55th percentile), above the state in five of six End-of-Course subjects — including Geometry at +15.7 points and Algebra I at +10.7 points — plus a 93.5% graduation rate and the smallest classes in the district (9.7 students per teacher). Its weak spot is attendance: 19.9% chronic absenteeism, nearly double the elementary school's 9.7%. New London Elementary School has the best attendance in the district and beats the state in grades 3 and 4 math and in 5th grade science, but 3rd grade English Language Arts is 15 points below state and its classes are the largest (17.8). New London Middle School has the weakest overall results — 6th grade math 17.6 points and 6th grade ELA 16.3 points below state — though 8th grade science and math beat the state, and it reports a free/reduced-lunch rate of 98.53%.
Three things matter most for families. Early literacy is the district's most consistent gap, and the drop from 5th to 6th grade ELA is the largest swing in the data. High school attendance is the clearest risk factor alongside otherwise strong results. And poverty, class-size and spending figures are largely unreported or dated — spending is from 2018–2019 — so the below-state scores are hard to place in full context.
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