Summary:
Leetonia Exempted Village School District is a small Ohio district serving 487 students across just two buildings: Leetonia Elementary School (grades K–5, 284 students) and Leetonia Junior/Senior High School (grades 6–12, 203 students). The district as a whole sits at 311th of 773 Ohio districts — about the 60th percentile, with a 3-star rating.
The two schools are heading in opposite directions, and this past year they met in the middle. Leetonia Junior/Senior High School has improved steadily — its state ranking climbed from the 39th to the 42nd to the 57th percentile, earning a third star, and it now beats the state in 10 of 12 tested subjects. Its strongest showings are in math: 6th-grade math at 80.0 versus a 56.2 state average and 8th-grade math at 72.7 versus 52.0. Leetonia Elementary School was the district's star for two years, ranking in the 88th–89th percentile with 4 stars and posting 5th-grade math proficiency of 96.7% against a 56.7% state average. This past year it dropped to the 55th percentile and 3 stars. What once was a roughly 45-to-50 point percentile gap favoring the elementary is now nearly level (55th vs. 57th).
For parents, two things stand out. First, chronic absenteeism differs sharply between the buildings: 15.8% at the elementary versus 41.2% at the high school, even though the high school still graduates 93.3% of students. Second, results are volatile because grade cohorts are tiny — roughly 30 to 47 students per grade, so one student can move a score by 2–3 points. Elementary math and science slipped this year, while high school math remains a clear strength. Note also that free/reduced-lunch data is not available for either school, so poverty context is missing.
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