Best High Schools in Zip Code 43315

Zip code 43315 in Cardington, Ohio contains two public high schools — Cardington-Lincoln High School, a traditional district school serving grades 9–12 with 245 students, and Tomorrow Center, which serves grades 8–12 with 106 students — for a combined enrollment of 351.

These two schools look very different on the measures families care about most. Cardington-Lincoln High School graduates 94.1% of its students, while Tomorrow Center graduates 75.9% — an 18-point gap. Chronic absenteeism is 20.3% at Cardington-Lincoln versus 46.3% at Tomorrow Center, meaning nearly half of Tomorrow Center's students are chronically absent. On state tests, Cardington-Lincoln matches or beats the Ohio average in American Government, American History, and Biology, but falls short in English II, Geometry, and especially Algebra I, where only 25.4% tested proficient. Tomorrow Center trails the state in every subject, with reported proficiency of 27.6% in Government, 20.0% in History, 22.2% in Biology, 14.3% in English II, and 0% in both Geometry and Algebra I.

For parents, the practical picture is a district school that is generally solid but has a clear math weakness, and a second school facing much steeper challenges in achievement, attendance, and graduation at the same time. Note some limits: Tomorrow Center's test scores are a year older than Cardington-Lincoln's, its small class sizes mean those percentages can swing widely from year to year, and neither school reports free-and-reduced-lunch data, so the data shows the size of the gap but cannot explain it.