Findlay City

Findlay City serves roughly 5,401 students across 10 schools — six elementaries (three K–2 primaries and three 3–5 elementaries), two middle schools for grades 6–8, and two high schools, with Millstream Career Center covering grades 11–12 — and the district as a whole ranks 381st of 773 in Ohio, or the 51st percentile with 3 stars.

Among elementaries, Chamberlin Hill Elementary School has the strongest test profile, scoring above both district and state in six of seven tested subjects, with low chronic absenteeism at 10.3%. Wilson Vance Elementary School and Bigelow Hill Elementary School also report solid proficiency. In the middle grades, Donnell Middle School outperforms Glenwood Middle School in 6th–8th math and ELA, and it also has lower absenteeism, lower free/reduced lunch, and a lower student-teacher ratio. Findlay High School graduates 96.1% of students and beats the state in government, history, biology, English II, and geometry. Jefferson Primary School has the district's best attendance at 9.6% chronic absenteeism, while Northview Primary School and Whittier Primary School serve K–2 students and so have no state test data here.

Two schools are the main areas to watch: Bigelow Hill Elementary School and Glenwood Middle School both sit at the 48th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–26. Glenwood reports the lowest proficiency score in the dataset, Math 8 at 38.3%, plus 18.2% chronic absenteeism, while Bigelow Hill has 64.29% free/reduced lunch and 18.1% absenteeism. Rank history also shows a downward trend at the ranked elementaries — Chamberlin Hill fell from 76th percentile and 4 stars to 59th and 3 stars, Wilson Vance from 62nd to 51st, and Bigelow Hill from 57th to 48th. Millstream Career Center enrolls 455 students but reports no test, attendance, spending, or staffing data, so it cannot be compared, and per-student spending figures date back to 2018–2019.