Northwestern Local

Northwestern Local in Ohio serves about 1,243 students across three schools — one elementary school for grades PK–5, one middle school for grades 6–8, and one high school for grades 9–12 — with no alternative school in the district. The district ranks 159th of 773 in Ohio, placing it in the 79th percentile with a 4-star rating, and all three schools share that district-level rating. The reported test-score data was not suppressed or given as ranges, so the percentages below can be read as exact figures.

Northwestern Elementary School is the largest school, with 632 students, and the most consistent performer: it has held 4 stars in each of the last three reported years and ranks in the 80th percentile. Northwestern Middle School has the highest current rank, 199th of 1,046 (81st percentile, 4 stars), up from the 67th percentile and 3 stars the year before. Northwestern High School posted the biggest rebound, from the 42nd percentile and 2 stars to the 71st percentile and 4 stars, with a 99.0% graduation rate — but it also has the district's highest chronic absenteeism at 22.8%, compared with 14.9% districtwide, 13.2% at the middle school, and 12.0% at the elementary school.

All three schools score above the state in the current reported test data. Standouts include 4th grade math at the elementary (92.3% vs 67.3% state), 8th grade science (88.2% vs 61.2%) and 7th grade ELA (81.2% vs 62.7%) at the middle school, and Algebra I End of Course at the middle school, which reported 100% proficiency two years running. High school math is the relative weak spot — Geometry at 51.9% and Algebra I at 69.5% — though both remain above the state (43.3% and 61.6%) and improved sharply from 28.0% and 39.7% the prior year. Free/reduced lunch rises from 43.67% at the elementary to 51.99% at the high school.