Summary:
Buckeye Local is a small Ohio district serving five schools — three elementary schools for grades PK–5, one junior high for grades 6–8, and one high school for grades 9–12 — with a combined enrollment of 1,347 students, and the district as a whole ranks 510 of 773 in Ohio, at the 34th percentile with 2 stars.
Buckeye North Elementary School is the district's clear standout: it ranks 343 of 1,560, at the 78th percentile with 4 stars, and has improved steadily from 52nd percentile in 2023–24 to 61st and then 78th. It is the only school where every listed 2025–26 test score is above the state average, including 4th grade math and ELA at 90.9%. At the other end, Buckeye Local High School ranks 660 of 795, at the 17th percentile with 1 star, and has chronic absenteeism of 52.1%, the highest in the district; it falls below the state in all six End-of-Course subjects, with the biggest gaps in Algebra I (29.6% vs. 61.6%) and Geometry (23.7% vs. 43.3%), even though its reported graduation rate is 95.5%. Buckeye Local Junior High is mixed: Algebra I proficiency is 90.5%, far above district and state, but 7th grade math (25.7%) and 6th grade math (35.9%) lag well behind.
Across the district, chronic absenteeism rises with grade level, from 26.6% at Buckeye South Elementary School and 27.0% at Buckeye West Elementary School up to 44.1% at the junior high and 52.1% at the high school, against a district rate of 39.5%. Elementary results are uneven: North is strong throughout, while South and West post lower math and science scores despite having the district's lowest absenteeism. Rank trends also diverge — North and West are improving, while South, the junior high, and the high school have declined or stayed low. Note that spending figures are from 2018–19, and free/reduced-lunch data are not reported here, so economic context cannot be factored in.
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