Summary:
Minerva Local serves about 1,626 students across three schools in northeast Ohio: Minerva Elementary School (K–5, 741 students), Minerva Middle School (6–8, 461 students), and Minerva High School (9–12, 424 students). At the district level, Minerva Local is ranked 297 out of 773 districts — the 62nd percentile — and holds 3 stars. A single K–12 district, it keeps students in one system from kindergarten through graduation.
Minerva Middle School is the academic standout. It earned 4 stars and ranked in the 80th percentile, up sharply from 66th and 64th in the two prior years, and it scored above the state average in every listed 2025–2026 subject — including 78.3% proficient in 8th-grade math versus 52.0% statewide and 100% in Algebra I. Minerva Elementary School posts excellent math results and an exceptional 0.4% chronic absenteeism rate, compared with 8.5% districtwide, though its overall rank slipped to the 59th percentile and 5th-grade ELA and science declined. Minerva High School has a 97.3% graduation rate and strengths in English II (78.6% vs. 62.7% state) and Biology, but remains at 2 stars and the 45th percentile.
The clearest concern is attendance at the secondary level: chronic absenteeism is 14.4% at the middle school and 16.9% at the high school, well above the district's 8.5%, even as the middle school produces top academic results. The high school's weak spots are American Government (62.5% vs. 71.6% state) and American History. Note that free/reduced lunch data is blank for all three schools, spending figures date to 2018–2019, and the middle school's perfect Algebra I rate likely reflects a small, selected group of students.
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