Summary:
Waverly City is a small Ohio district made up of four schools — Waverly High School (grades 9–12, 435 students), Waverly Primary School (PK–2, 415), Waverly Junior High School (6–8, 383), and Waverly Intermediate School (3–5, 374) — together serving roughly 1,607 students in a single PK–12 pipeline, with enrollment so evenly spread that the largest building is only 61 students bigger than the smallest.
The district overall is rated 1 star (586th of 773 Ohio districts, 24th percentile), but that figure hides a two-tier system. Waverly Junior High School is the strongest performer: 2 stars (39th percentile), the lowest chronic absenteeism in the district at 15.4%, and 100% proficient on the Algebra I end-of-course exam — though that cohort is typically small and selective, so it should be read as a bound rather than a building-wide level. Waverly Intermediate School has the smallest average gap to the state (about 5.9 points) and beats the state in 5th-grade science and math. Waverly High School is the only 1-star building and trails the state in all six tested subjects, yet posts a 97.1% graduation rate.
Attendance forms a U-shape: the Junior High (15.4%) and Intermediate (21.4%) have the best attendance, while the Primary (23.6%) and High School (26.4%) have the weakest. Grade 5 is a strength at the Intermediate, but grade 3 dropped sharply in both math and ELA and now sits well below state. Algebra I shows the widest contrast — 100% at the Junior High versus 36.8% at the High School — and district averages can hide roughly 20-point swings, so building-level numbers matter more than the district figure. Two caveats: free/reduced-lunch data is not reported for any school, spending figures are from 2018–19 only, and the Primary has no academic outcome data at all.
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