Summary:
Paint Valley Local in Bainbridge, Ohio, is a small district serving 721 students across three schools: Paint Valley Elementary (PK–5, 371 students), Paint Valley Middle School (6–8, 166 students), and Paint Valley High School (9–12, 184 students). All three sit at the same address, and the district as a whole ranks 600th of 773 Ohio districts — 22nd percentile, 1 star. None of the three schools is high-performing statewide, but they are not uniformly weak either.
Among the three, Paint Valley Middle School is the relative standout at 33rd percentile with 2 stars, and it has the lowest student-teacher ratio in the district at 16.6. Its Biology and Algebra I End-of-Course results were 100% proficient, far above state, though 7th grade math (28.6% vs state 48.6%) and 7th grade ELA (40.8% vs state 62.7%) show the picture is uneven across grades. Paint Valley High School posts a very strong 98.6% graduation rate and beats the state in Biology and Geometry, but American Government is 44.4% proficient against a state rate of 71.6%. Paint Valley Elementary has the best attendance in the district — 14.2% chronic absenteeism versus the district's 20.1% — but every listed test score is below state and its rank percentile has slipped from 37 to 31 to 24 over three years.
Attendance divides the district: elementary is well below the district's chronic absenteeism rate, while middle (23.7%) and high school (28.0%) are above it. The high school also carries the highest student-teacher ratio (26.2). Two gaps limit how far these comparisons can be pushed: free/reduced lunch is not reported for any school, so poverty context is unavailable, and spending figures date to 2018–2019 and cannot be tied to current outcomes. Families should read the middle school's perfect EOC scores as a small-group result, not as overall school mastery.
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