Summary:
ZIP code 43213, on Columbus's east side, is home to two public high schools serving grades 9–12: Whitehall Yearling High School, with 993 students in the Whitehall City district, and Eastmoor Academy, with 584 students in the Columbus City Schools District.
Whitehall Yearling High School has the stronger academic record of the two. In 2025–2026 it ranked 608 of 795 Ohio high schools (24th percentile, 1 star), compared with Eastmoor's 719 of 795 (10th percentile, 0 stars), and it outperformed Eastmoor in every tested subject in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Its best result was American Government, where 74.1% of students were proficient — above the state average of 71.6% — and its Algebra I proficiency rose from 37.8% to 50.9%. Whitehall's graduation rate was 89.2%, with chronic absenteeism at 53.6%, a student-teacher ratio of 18.7, and 2018–2019 per-student spending of $8,300.
Eastmoor Academy stands out for its 98.6% graduation rate — 9.4 points above Whitehall's and 17.1 points above its own district's 81.5% — along with a lower student-teacher ratio of 16.2 and higher historical spending of $11,895. Yet it was below the state average in all six tested subjects, with 16.0% proficient in Algebra I and 7.7% in Geometry, and chronic absenteeism of 67.4%. Math is the weakest area for both schools, and both rank in the bottom quartile of Ohio high schools.
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