Summary:
ZIP code 43119 is home to four schools — one high school, one intermediate school serving grades 5–6, and two elementary schools serving grades K–4 — all part of the South-Western City district, which is ranked 508th of 773 in Ohio (34th percentile) with 2 stars. Together these four schools enroll 3,616 students.
Westland High School is by far the largest, with 1,853 students, or 51.2% of the ZIP's enrollment, and also the most challenged: its 2025–2026 rank is 639th of 795 (20th percentile, 1 star), down from the 30th percentile, its chronic absenteeism is 49.5% against the district's 32.1%, and its 89.7% graduation rate trails the district's 91.8%. Darby Woods Elementary School is the academic bright spot, ranked 962nd of 1,560 (38th percentile) and the only school whose average proficiency was above the district's in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026; it also has the best attendance in the ZIP at 19.3% chronic absenteeism. Galloway Ridge Intermediate School improved in every reported 2025–2026 test, while Alton Hall Elementary School moved from the 23rd to the 31st percentile and from 1 star to 2 stars.
Notably, poverty does not appear to determine outcomes: Alton Hall has the lowest free/reduced lunch rate (61.51%) but trails Darby Woods (72.2%) academically, while Galloway Ridge has the highest poverty rate (83.12%), the lowest historical per-student spending ($8,140, from 2018–2019) and the smallest classes (17.4 students per teacher) yet shows the strongest year-over-year improvement. Westland's size skews the area's attendance picture — the four schools average about 30.5% chronic absenteeism, but weighting by enrollment pushes that to about 37.2%, above the district's 32.1%.
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