Summary
Eastern High School is a small public high school in Beaver, Ohio, serving grades 9–12 with 163 students as part of the Eastern Local School District in rural southern Ohio.
For parents, the big picture is mixed. In 2025–2026, the school ranked 531st of 795 Ohio high schools—33rd percentile, 2 stars—down from the 46th percentile in 2023–2024. Its 90.5% graduation rate is below most nearby schools, and chronic absenteeism is 34.1%, higher than the district’s 30.4%. By comparison, South Webster Junior/Senior High School reports 96.0% graduation and 22.2% absenteeism, while Valley High School reports 98.7% graduation and 17.1% absenteeism. Eastern High School is the smallest nearby high school and has the lowest student–teacher ratio (10.1) and highest reported per-student spending ($11,916 in 2018–2019) among nearby schools with data, but those resource advantages have not yet translated into top-tier outcomes.
Academically, the school’s 2025–2026 results are mixed. American History is a strength at 76.0%, above the state’s 73.2%, and English II is essentially at the state level (62.5% vs. 62.7%). Biology (54.5% vs. 67.0% state) and American Government (67.1% vs. 71.6%) are weaker, while Geometry (40.4% vs. 43.3%) and Algebra I (59.4% vs. 61.6%) are slightly below state averages. Among student groups, low-socioeconomic-status students fell from the 70th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 48th percentile in 2025–2026, while special education students were a bright spot at the 78th percentile, 4 stars, in 2024–2025. Gifted students were at the 27th percentile, 1 star, in 2024–2025. With only 163 students, single-year swings can be volatile, so families should look at multi-year trends. Free/reduced-lunch data was not available, and spending data is from 2018–2019, so some context is limited.
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