Summary:
Zip code 43022 contains just one school — Wiggin Street Elementary School in Gambier, Ohio — so there are no in-town peers to compare it against. It is a regular elementary school serving grades PK through 5 with 217 students, and it belongs to the Mount Vernon City district. With that many students spread across seven grade levels, individual grades are small, likely 25–40 children, which means one student can move a percentage by roughly 3 points. Year-to-year numbers should be read with that in mind.
On the numbers, this school stands out well beyond its district. In 2025-26 it ranked 65th out of 1,560 Ohio elementary schools — the 96th percentile, or 5 stars — while Mount Vernon City sits at the 78th percentile with 4 stars. The school beat its district in all seven tested subject-and-grade combinations, averaging 90.9% proficiency against the district's 79.0% and the state's 63.8%. Its strongest result is 5th grade science at 97.1%, which is 34.4 points above the state, and 5th grade English Language Arts reached 100%. Results improved across the board from the prior year, when the school averaged 82.6%, while district and state averages barely moved. Chronic absenteeism is 9.1%, compared with the district's 16.1%.
Two caveats matter for parents. First, the school's free and reduced-price lunch rate is not reported here, so it is not possible to know the economic context behind these results. Second, per-student spending is only available for 2018-19 at $8,986, which is too dated to draw conclusions from. The relative weak spot is 3rd grade, where math came in at 80.0% and ELA was the school's lowest cell a year earlier — though both still clear the state by a wide margin. Even with those gaps, Wiggin Street Elementary School performs far above district and state averages, and district-level ratings alone would understate it.
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