Summary:
ZIP code 43210 in Columbus, Ohio, contains exactly one school — Metro Early College High School, a K–12 alternative school with 869 students on Kenny Road in the Ohio State University campus corridor — making it a single-school district (Metro Early College High School).
Academically, the school compares well with Ohio as a whole. In 2025–26 it beat the state on 14 of 20 tested subjects. Its strongest areas are social studies — American History at 94.8% proficiency (21.6 points above the state) and American Government at 91.6% (20.0 points above) — and English language arts, where 5th grade (82.5%, +12.1) and 7th grade (76.8%, +14.1) stand out. End-of-course math and Biology are also solidly above state. The weaker spots are elementary math and science: 4th-grade math at 54.5% versus a 67.3% state average, 5th-grade science at 52.5% versus 62.7%, and 5th-grade math at 52.5% versus 59.1%. Those elementary grades appear in the data for the first time in 2025–26, so there is no prior year to measure them against.
Other school-level figures include a 98.4% graduation rate, 13.6% chronic absenteeism, 49.48% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and a student-teacher ratio of 18.4 to 1. None of these comes with a state comparison in this data, so they are hard to judge in isolation. Per-student spending is listed at $7,834, but that figure is from 2018–19 and is too old to explain current results. Finally, with 869 students spread across K–12, individual grade sizes are small, and single-year swings — such as 8th-grade math moving from 26.0% to 43.5% proficiency — are better read as noisy than as proof of real change.
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