Summary:
East Guernsey Local has just one elementary school, Buckeye Trail Elementary in Lore City, Ohio, serving grades K–5 to 435 students with a student-teacher ratio of 14.8. Because it is the only elementary school in the district, the district's elementary test results match the school's results exactly. The district is ranked 507th of 773 Ohio districts, placing it in the 34th percentile with 2 stars, and the school sits at 40th percentile among Ohio elementary schools in 2025–2026 with a rank of 934 of 1,560. Per-student spending was $12,373 in 2018–2019, and 82.07% of students received free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, so the school serves a high-need population.
Buckeye Trail Elementary's strengths are concentrated in the earlier grades and in attendance. Third and fourth grade mathematics were above the state in both years, with 3rd grade math at 72.3% proficient versus the state's 62.1% and 4th grade math at 77.3% versus 67.3% in 2025–2026. Third grade English Language Arts was also above the state both years, at 66.7% versus 63.4%. Chronic absenteeism is a clear bright spot: 12.2% at the school compared with 18.4% across the district, a difference of 6.2 percentage points. Given the high economic need in the school community, these above-state results in early-grade math and 3rd grade ELA stand out.
The upper grades are where the school trails most. Fifth grade mathematics is the biggest concern, at 37.7% proficient against the state's 59.1% in 2025–2026 and 33.3% against 56.7% in 2024–2025. Fifth grade science was 47.8% versus 62.7% and 51.4% versus 63.4% across the two years, and 4th and 5th grade ELA were below the state in both years, including 58.0% versus 70.4% in 5th grade ELA in 2025–2026. Averaged across all seven reported tests, the school scored 58.8% versus the state's 63.8% in 2025–2026, and 60.3% versus 63.5% the year before. The school has held steady at 2 stars across 2023–2024, 2024–2025, and 2025–2026.
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