Summary:
Zip code 43215 in downtown Columbus contains 10 public schools — 4 elementary, 1 middle, and 5 high schools — serving 3,081 students. Enrollment is concentrated: high schools account for 1,386 students (45.0%) and elementaries 1,188 (38.6%), while the single middle school, Arts Impact Middle School (Aims), has 507. Sizes vary enormously, from United Schools Columbus at 838 students to LINC Academy Columbus at 25. Note that United Schools Columbus is classified as elementary but serves grades K–8. Data is uneven: test scores are provided for 7 schools, chronic absenteeism for 8, graduation rates for only 3, spending for 4 (and only from 2018–2019), and free/reduced lunch for 2. Blank fields mean not reported, not zero.
Standouts include Fort Hayes Arts and Academic High School, with the highest graduation rate at 95.9%, far above the Columbus City Schools District at 81.5%, plus English II at 60% (district 33.5%) and American History at 66.7% (district 48.3%) — though its math scores are low (Geometry 12.4%) and absenteeism is 64.7%. Arts Impact Middle School (Aims) posts the single best result in the set: Algebra I at 81.8% proficient, above the state's 61.6%. Hubbard Elementary School was above the district in 6 of 7 subjects in 2024–2025 but below in 6 of 7 in 2025–2026, and has the lowest reported absenteeism at 45.4%.
Across the area, chronic absenteeism averages 62.5% among the 8 schools reporting it, with Early College Academy at 90.9% and Flex High School at 82.6%; both also have low graduation rates — 43.8% and 36.5% — and very low test scores. Every school sits in the lower quarter of state rankings, with no rank percentile above 26, and only AIMS's Algebra I result exceeds the state average. Fort Hayes Career Center (ratio 3.6) and Columbus Downtown High School (ratio 1.3) report no outcome data at all.
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