Meigs Local

Meigs Local is a rural Ohio district in the Middleport and Pomeroy area serving about 1,586 students across four schools — two elementaries, one middle school and one high school — following a single PK–3 through 9–12 feeder pattern, and it ranks 620th of 773 districts statewide with a 1-star rating.

At the top stands Meigs Middle School, the only 2-star school in the district and the only one ranking above the district's own 20th percentile (36th percentile in 2025–26). It also posts the district's smallest average test-score gap to the state (about 10 points), plus its two biggest year-over-year gains — 6th-grade math up 16 points and 6th-grade ELA up 12.6 points. Meigs Intermediate School is still 1 star but shows the clearest upward trend, moving from the 21st to the 28th percentile in three years, and its 3rd-grade ELA results (59.4% and 61.5%) sit within about 2 points of the state — the closest recurring result in the district. At the other end, Meigs High School, the largest school with 542 students, has the weakest profile: Geometry at 14.2% proficient (state 43.3) and Algebra I at 27.8% (state 61.6), with Algebra I declining year over year, an 82.4% graduation rate, and 50.5% chronic absenteeism — 1.5 times the district rate. Meigs Primary School is a PK–3 building with no state test scores or rank history, and its absenteeism is low at 20.5%. Notably, every reported test result district-wide falls below the state average, and math gaps are consistently larger than reading gaps. Attendance is lower in the elementary buildings (18.3% and 20.5%) and rises sharply with grade level, and the district's free/reduced-price lunch data is unavailable for all schools, so economic context is missing. Spending per student figures date to 2018–19 and are too old to draw current conclusions from. Use Meigs Local comparisons when weighing individual schools.