Summary
Plymouth High School in Plymouth, OH is a small public school serving grades 9–12 with 118 students in the high-poverty Plymouth-Shiloh Local district, where 97.46% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025. It ranked 450th of 795 Ohio high schools in 2025–2026 (43rd percentile, 2 stars), slightly below the state midpoint and below its stronger recent years (58th percentile in 2024–2025 and 60th in 2022–2023).
Academically, Plymouth has a split profile. Biology is a genuine standout: 86.4% proficiency, highest among the nearby comprehensive high schools and 19.4 points above the Ohio state figure. English II (72.1%) and American History (78.6%) are also above the state. Math is the clear weakness: Geometry was 35.6% and Algebra I 46.5%, both below the state and near the bottom of nearby schools. American Government fell from 86.4% in 2024–2025 to 66.0% in 2025–2026, showing how one cohort can swing results in a school this small. Compared with neighbors, Plymouth is roughly in the same tier as Willard High School and South Central High School, ahead of Crestline High School, but behind Seneca East High School, Ontario High School, Buckeye Central High School, Shelby High School, New London High School, and Crestview High School. Seneca East, which also has very high poverty, ranks much higher overall, so poverty is important context but not the whole story.
Plymouth’s strengths include a 95.3% graduation rate and chronic absenteeism that has improved dramatically to 13.2%, better than the nearby average of about 15.6% though still above the district’s 10.6%. A persistent effectiveness gap remains for male students, who ranked 31st percentile in 2025–2026 while female students ranked 47th. Low-socioeconomic-status students ranked 55th percentile, above the school’s overall 43rd, suggesting Plymouth is relatively effective with the population it serves most. For parents, the takeaway is that this small school has real science, history, English, graduation, and attendance strengths, but math—especially Geometry and Algebra I—is the biggest area for improvement; raising math while preserving those gains could move its overall rank up substantially.
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