Norwayne Local

Norwayne Local is a small Ohio district with three schools—Norwayne Elementary School (PK–5), Norwayne Middle School (6–8), and Norwayne High School (9–12)—serving 1,264 students, with no alternative school reported and a district rank of 95th of 773 Ohio districts, in the 88th percentile with 4 stars. All three schools currently hold 4 stars in 2025–2026, and current unweighted test averages are roughly 17–23 points above state averages: Elementary 83.0% vs. 63.8%, Middle 79.7% vs. 57.1%, and High 80.6% vs. 63.2%. Elementary enrolls 539 students, Middle 310, and High 415.

For parents comparing the schools, Norwayne Elementary School is the most consistent, with 4th grade mathematics at 92%, 5th grade science at 87.3%, and the lowest chronic absenteeism at 8.9%. Norwayne Middle School has the highest ceiling and the clearest volatility: Algebra I is 100% in both years, 8th grade science is 91.3%, and 7th grade ELA is 91.2%, but its rank fell from 34/1036, 97th percentile and 5 stars in 2024–2025 to 162/1046, 85th percentile and 4 stars in 2025–2026, largely because 6th grade math dropped from 87.4% to 59.6% and 6th grade ELA from 72.7% to 55.4%. Norwayne High School has a 98.3% graduation rate, strong American Government (93%), English II (87.4%), and American History (85.4%), with Algebra I improving from 51.9% to 75.9%; Geometry is its weakest at 62.9%, still well above Ohio’s 43.3%.

Other context matters too. Norwayne Middle School has the lowest student/teacher ratio at 16.2 and the highest 2018–2019 per-student spending at $8,384, while Norwayne High School reports the highest free/reduced lunch at 48.92%, compared with 40.63% at Norwayne Elementary School and an unknown value for Middle. Chronic absenteeism is 8.9% at Elementary, below the district’s 9.5%, while Middle and High are both at 10.0%. Algebra I also tells a district story: Middle is 100%, High is 75.9%, and the district aggregate is 83.3%. Nearly every reported current test score is at or above the state average; the only near-exception is Middle’s 6th grade ELA at 55.4% versus a state average of 56%, essentially at the state line.