Summary:
Hudson City is a high-performing five-school district serving grades PK–12 — three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school — with 4,468 students enrolled, ranked 14th of 773 Ohio districts at the 98th percentile with five stars. Hudson Middle School is the academic anchor, ranking 9th of 1,046 middle schools statewide (99th percentile) and improving from 20th to 12th to 9th over three years. Its Geometry and Algebra I end-of-course results are reported at 100% proficiency in both 2025–2026 and 2024–2025, far above state averages of 43.3% and 61.6%. It also has the district's lowest student-teacher ratio at 14.7. Hudson High School is the largest school at 1,421 students, ranks 14th of 795 high schools, and posts a 97.6% graduation rate, with American Government at 97.4%, American History at 97.0%, and Biology at 93.0%; its lower results are Geometry at 87.0% and Algebra I at 91.6%, both below district averages. East Woods Intermediate School, ranked 73rd of 1,560 elementary schools, reaches 95.0% in 5th-grade ELA and 92.2% in 5th-grade science.
Across 22 reported 2025–2026 tests, Hudson schools average roughly 92.0% proficiency against a state average of about 60.3%. Ellsworth Hill Elementary School and McDowell Early Learning School serve grades 1–2 and PK–K, so they have no state test scores, but both show very low absenteeism — 5.6% and 4.0% — and Ellsworth has the district's lowest free/reduced-lunch rate at 4.86%.
The clearest concern is attendance: chronic absenteeism climbs steadily by grade level, from 4.0% at McDowell to 5.6% at Ellsworth, 6.5% at East Woods, 7.7% at the middle school, and 13.7% at the high school. Hudson High is the only school above the district rate of 8.8%. Poverty is low everywhere, with no school above 9.15% free/reduced lunch, and per-student spending figures date from 2018–2019, making them historical context rather than a current measure.
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