Summary:
Kings Local, a district in Ohio, contains two middle-level schools: Columbia Intermediate School, which serves grades 5–6 with 809 students, and Kings Junior High School, which serves grades 7–8 with 730 students, for a combined enrollment of 1,539. Kings Local ranks 116 of 773 schools, placing it in the 85th percentile with 4 stars.
Both schools score above the state average on every reported test. Kings Junior High School stands out for recent momentum and advanced math: its state rank improved to 107 of 1,046 (90th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026, from 174 of 1,036 the year before. Geometry proficiency was 100% in both years, Algebra I was 100% in 2025–2026 and 97.8% the prior year, and 8th-grade science rose to 85.8% from 77.1%. Columbia Intermediate School has the stronger attendance record, with 12.2% chronic absenteeism versus 15.5% at Kings Junior High and 15.1% district-wide. Columbia's older ranking history is elite — 81 of 1,010 (92nd percentile, 5 stars) in 2017–2018.
The two schools have similar poverty and spending profiles — free/reduced lunch at 22.62% versus 24.25%, and per-student spending of $9,767 versus $10,019 in 2018–2019 — but different student-teacher ratios of 23.3 at Columbia and 19.6 at Kings Junior High. One oddity: Columbia reported 100% proficiency in 7th-grade math in both years despite serving grades 5–6, likely a small advanced cohort or a reporting artifact rather than a full 7th-grade class. Because the schools serve different grades and the spending data is historical, direct comparisons between them are limited.
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