Summary:
Huntington Local is a small, single-campus district in Chillicothe, Ohio, serving about 1,017 students across three schools — Huntington Elementary School (K–4, 404 students), Huntington Middle School (5–8, 313 students), and Huntington High School (9–12, 300 students). The Huntington Local district as a whole ranks in the 25th percentile with 1 star, but that district number hides real differences between the three schools.
The clearest bright spot is early math at Huntington Elementary. Fourth-grade math proficiency is 77%, about 9.7 points above the state and the highest figure anywhere in this data, and third-grade math (67.5%) also beats the state. That strength has held for two years running. Reading is the opposite story: elementary English language arts sits roughly 12 to 15 points below the state, with fourth-grade ELA at 47.1%. Huntington Middle is the steadiest school — 35th percentile three years in a row, with sixth-grade math above the state both years — but only 1 of 10 tested subjects beat the state in 2025–26, and middle school science averages nearly 20 points behind. Huntington High is the weakest link: 21st percentile with 1 star, no subject above the state in either year, Geometry at 10.1% proficiency (about 33 points below the state), and Algebra I 24 points behind.
Attendance worsens as students get older — 26.0% chronic absenteeism at the elementary, 26.8% at the middle, and 35.6% at the high school. Yet the high school reports a 94.5% graduation rate, which sits oddly beside its weak proficiency results. Spending data (from 2018–19) shows $11,501 per student at the high school versus $9,945 at the elementary, though staffing ratios are nearly identical across all three.
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