Elgin Local

Elgin Local is a small Ohio district serving about 1,022 students across three schools — one elementary (K–5), one middle (6–8), and one high school (9–12) — and it ranks 474th out of 773 Ohio schools, placing it at the 39th percentile with 2 stars.

Each school has its own profile. Elgin Elementary School is the largest, with 490 students — nearly half the district — and has the best attendance, with chronic absenteeism of 18.7%, below the district rate of 22.5%. Elgin Middle School is the only school improving steadily over three years, moving from the 39th to the 43rd to the 47th percentile, and it posts standout results in 8th-grade science (80.3% vs. 61.2% state) and Algebra I (86.7% vs. 61.6% state). Elgin High School has the highest graduation rate at 97.3%, but its percentile fell from 63 to 37 and its stars from 3 to 2 in a single year, and it has the district's highest chronic absenteeism at 28.0%.

The district's clearest academic strength is advanced math: Algebra I beats the state at both the middle school (86.7%) and the high school (83.1%), against a state figure of 61.6%. The weakest areas are early and middle grade math and reading — 6th-grade math at 32.9% vs. 56.2% state, 7th-grade math at 30.6% vs. 48.6%, 7th-grade ELA at 44.1% vs. 62.7%, and 3rd-grade math at 50.0% vs. 62.1% and ELA at 54.2% vs. 63.4%. High school scores declined broadly, including Biology (77.5% to 59.5%), English II (73.6% to 58.8%), and American History (73.1% to 59.3%). Free/reduced lunch ranges from 59.14% to 63.64% across the three schools, and the only spending data available is from 2018–19, so it should not be used to judge current resources.