Summary:
Clear Fork Valley Local is a four-school Ohio district serving roughly 1,418 students across two elementary schools (K–5), one middle school (5–8), and one high school (8–12), with no alternative school in this list. The district as a whole ranks 198 out of 773 in Ohio, placing it in the 74th percentile with 4 stars — but that overall standing hides a clear split between strong elementary results and more mixed secondary performance.
The two elementary schools are the district's academic engine. Bellville Elementary School is the top-ranked individual school at 257 of 1,560 (84th percentile, 4 stars), with the lowest chronic absenteeism in the district at 3.8% versus the district's 10.2%, and the highest single test score in the group — 91.7% in third-grade math. Butler Elementary School is the most improved, climbing from the 60th to the 72nd to the 82nd percentile over three years and moving from 3 stars to 4, with 85.4% in fourth-grade math and 85.1% in fifth-grade math. Both schools score above the state in every reported math, ELA, and science test.
The secondary schools show real strengths alongside clear gaps. Clear Fork Middle School posts 100% Algebra I proficiency in both years, far above district and state, though 6th-grade math lags below state and its overall percentile is 68 with 3 stars. Clear Fork High School has a 97.5% graduation rate and beats the state in American History, American Government, Biology, and English II, but Geometry is far below state (32.2% vs. 43.3%) and its 19.6% chronic absenteeism is the district's highest. Notably, spending and student-teacher ratios don't track neatly with outcomes: the top-ranked elementary has the highest ratio (17.7), while the lowest-spending middle school still delivers the standout Algebra I result.
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