Summary:
ZIP code 43055 in Licking County is home to 19 schools — 10 elementary, 4 middle, 4 high, and 1 alternative — serving about 8,945 students across five systems, with Newark City Schools enrolling roughly 62.5% of them and Licking Valley Local about 22.8%. The largest school is Newark High School (1,369 students); the smallest is Licking Valley Online Learning School (10 students), too small for meaningful comparisons.
Academically, the brightest spots are two Newark City elementaries: Hillview Elementary School (76th percentile, 4 stars) and Legend Elementary (74th percentile, 4 stars), both with all 7 of 7 reported tests above the state average and chronic absenteeism well below the district's 28.0%. Liberty Middle School also had all 8 of 8 tests above state average. Licking Valley Local is the strongest district overall (53rd percentile, 3 stars), and Licking Valley High School posts a 96.3% graduation rate with 5 of 6 End-of-Course tests above state average.
Challenges cluster in the middle and high grades. Heritage Middle School has the ZIP's highest chronic absenteeism at 46.2% and mostly below-average scores, while Wilson Middle School reports 31.4%. At Newark High School, all 6 of 6 reported tests fell below the state average. Geometry is a shared weak point — 26.3% at Licking Valley High and 36.5% at Newark High versus a 61.6% state average for Algebra I and 43.3% for Geometry, even though middle-school Algebra I reaches 100% at two schools.
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