Summary:
East Guernsey Local (Buckeye Trail) is a small Ohio district serving roughly 935 students across three schools: Buckeye Trail Elementary (K–5, 435 students), Buckeye Trail Middle School (6–8, 213 students), and Buckeye Trail High School (9–12, 287 students). The district is ranked 507 of 773 districts statewide, placing it in the 34th percentile with a 2-star rating, and all three schools also earned 2 stars in 2025–2026 — though the middle school had been 3 stars in the two prior years.
Buckeye Trail Elementary stands out for early-grade math: 3rd- and 4th-grade math proficiency was above the state in both years (72.3% vs 62.1% and 77.3% vs 67.3% in 2025–2026), and it has the district's lowest chronic absenteeism at 12.2%, versus 18.4% districtwide. Grade 5 is a persistent weak spot, with Math 5 at 37.7% vs the state's 59.1%. Buckeye Trail High School posts a strong 98.8% graduation rate, with American History (81.4% vs 73.2%) and English II (71.4% vs 62.7%) above state; Geometry lags at 33.7% vs 43.3%.
Buckeye Trail Middle School showed the biggest swing: 8th-grade science fell from 80.3% to 35.1%, and its ranking dropped from 391 of 1,036 (62nd percentile, 3 stars) to 600 of 1,046 (43rd percentile, 2 stars). Secondary absenteeism is roughly double the elementary rate — 24.5% at the middle school and 24.0% at the high school. Free/reduced lunch is 82.07% at the elementary and 59.23% at the high school, while the middle school's value is unknown in the data. Per-student spending is highest at the high school ($13,195), and student-teacher ratios are nearly identical across all three schools (14.4 to 14.9).
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