Summary:
Dawson-Bryant Local is a small Ohio district with three schools serving students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade: Dawson-Bryant Elementary School (PK–5, 570 students), Dawson-Bryant Middle School (grades 6–8, 262 students) and Dawson-Bryant High School (grades 9–12, 272 students), for 1,104 students in all — more than half of them in the elementary building. The Dawson-Bryant Local district overall is rated 3 stars and ranked #351 of 773 Ohio districts, but that single figure is an average that conceals three very different buildings.
The standout is Dawson-Bryant Elementary, which earned 4 stars in all three years of available data and reached the 81st percentile in 2025-26. It scored above the state in all seven reported subjects that year, with an average gap of +16.9 points, and posts the district's lowest chronic absenteeism at 20.8%. Dawson-Bryant Middle is the second-strongest building but uneven: it climbed to the 83rd percentile in 2024-25 before slipping to the 66th percentile in 2025-26, and 4 of 7 subjects beat the state. Its brightest result is 7th-grade math at 84.9% proficient versus 48.6% statewide, even as 8th-grade math trails the state by 14.2 points.
Dawson-Bryant High is the clear priority. It fell to 1 star and the 22nd percentile in 2025-26, sits below the state in all six reported subjects, and shows its widest deficits in Biology (45.9% vs. 67.0%) and Geometry (28.6% vs. 43.3%). It also has the district's highest chronic absenteeism at 33.7% — one in three students — while still graduating 98.7% of seniors. Notably, both attendance and test performance decline steadily as students move from elementary to middle to high school, the most consistent pattern in the data. Interestingly, the high school has the smallest classes and highest per-student spending of the three, so resources alone do not explain the differences in outcomes.
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