Ottawa-Glandorf Local

Ottawa-Glandorf Local (OH) is a district of about 1,500 students across three schools—two K–8 elementary schools and one 9–12 high school—with no middle or alternative school. The district is ranked 79th of 773 Ohio districts, at the 90th percentile with 4 stars. Enrollment is 595 students (39.7%) at Ottawa-Glandorf High School, 515 (34.3%) at Glandorf Elementary School, and 390 (26.0%) at Ottawa Elementary School.

Glandorf Elementary School is the district’s clear standout: it has been a 5-star school for three straight years and remains in roughly the top 3–5% of Ohio schools, with exceptionally low chronic absenteeism at 0.9% and a very low free/reduced lunch rate of 6.8%. Ottawa-Glandorf High School is also strong, with a 97.7% graduation rate and all six End-of-Course subjects above the state average in 2025–26, but its chronic absenteeism is 8.3%, the highest among the three schools. Ottawa Elementary School beats the state in every listed 2025–26 subject, with standout science results (90% in 5th grade science and 84.8% in 8th grade science), despite having the highest free/reduced lunch rate at 58.97% and the lowest per-student spending at $7,582 in 2018–19.

Across schools, the district’s overall rank is high, but school-level variation is large: Glandorf Elementary School is at the 97th percentile, Ottawa-Glandorf High School at the 84th, and Ottawa Elementary School at the 79th. Chronic absenteeism tends to rise with grade level—Glandorf Elementary School 0.9%, Ottawa Elementary School 5.3%, Ottawa-Glandorf High School 8.3%—compared with the district’s 4.9%. Glandorf Elementary School and Ottawa Elementary School diverge most in ELA: in 2025–26, Glandorf leads Ottawa by 33.3 points in 4th grade ELA, 22.0 points in 3rd grade ELA, 18.2 points in 6th grade ELA, and 15.9 points in 8th grade ELA. Ottawa Elementary leads in 5th and 8th grade science and 8th grade math. Note that data come from different years—spending from 2018–19, lunch from 2024–25, and most test and absenteeism data from 2025–26—so they should not be used to make causal claims.