Summary
Milton-Union High School is a public high school in West Milton, OH, a western Ohio community, serving 369 students in grades 9–12 as part of Milton-Union Exempted Village. In 2025–2026, it ranked 458th of 795 Ohio high schools—42nd percentile, 2 stars—while its district ranked 441st of 773 (43rd percentile). The school has slipped from the 63rd percentile in 2022–2023 to 54th, 47th, and now 42nd, near its lowest mark. Nearby, Newton High School (88th percentile), Troy High School (80th), Tippecanoe High School (77th), Brookville High School (75th), Northmont High School (67th), Franklin Monroe High School (65th), and Butler High School (61st) all rank higher; only Trotwood-Madison High School (19th) ranks lower.
Graduation is a strength: 97.8% in 2025–2026, up from 91.3% in 2022–2023 and in line with Brookville High School (98.4%), Troy High School (98.0%), Tippecanoe High School (98.1%), and Northmont High School (97.7%). Attendance is the opposite: chronic absenteeism is 30.9%, much higher than the district’s 19.9% and the nearby median near 16.5%; only Trotwood-Madison High School (52.8%) is worse, while Tippecanoe High School (11.7%), Brookville High School (10.5%), Newton High School (6.6%), and Franklin Monroe High School (5.1%) are far lower. Test scores are mixed: American Government (80.5%) and American History (79.6%) beat state averages, but Biology (64.5% vs. 67.0%), Geometry (36.8% vs. 43.3%), and Algebra I (58.8% vs. 61.6%) trail the state, and Milton-Union High School is below the nearby median in all six End-of-Course subjects. Special Education students rank at the 69th percentile (3 stars), a relative strength, while low-SES students rank 30th percentile (1 star), down from 60th in 2023–2024.
Context: 99.19% of students are reported as eligible for free/reduced lunch, far above Brookville High School (66.59%), Troy High School (54.29%), Newton High School (49.14%), and Tippecanoe High School (16.75%). Per-student spending was $8,599 in 2018–2019, the lowest among these nearby districts, and the 2024–2025 student/teacher ratio was 18.4. Overall, the school’s strengths are its high graduation rate, stronger social studies results, and special education performance; its biggest concerns are chronic absenteeism, declining overall rank, weak math and science outcomes, and low-SES subgroup performance.
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