Summary:
Zip code 43316 is home to a single high school: Carey High School, a combined grades 6–12 building at 2016 Blue Devil Drive in Carey, Ohio, serving 483 students across seven grade levels — roughly 69 students per grade — as part of Carey Exempted Village Schools. Because it is the district's only 6–12 testing population, its school-level test scores and chronic-absenteeism figure match the district values exactly; only the graduation rate differs (100.0% school vs. 98.8% district).
On the 2025–2026 Ohio State Tests, Carey beats the state average in 8 of 13 tests, with its widest margins in the humanities and life sciences: Biology +11.8 points, American Government +10.5, American History +8.0, and 8th-grade English Language Arts +7.9. Math is the clear weak spot, and it is a stable two-year pattern: Math 7 sits at 31.1% proficient vs. 48.6% state (−17.5), Math 8 at 36.4% vs. 52.0% (−15.6), and Geometry at 21.1% vs. 43.3% (−22.2) — the lowest figure anywhere in the data. Notably, Algebra I is above state at 65.4% (+3.8), so the difficulty is not uniform across the math department but concentrated in the middle grades and geometry.
Other measures are favorable: a 100.0% graduation rate, 15.2% chronic absenteeism, and a 16.2 student–teacher ratio. Rank history has nonetheless slipped from the 63rd percentile (2023–2024) to 59th and then 52nd, with the district now at 378 of 773. Keep two caveats in mind: the free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported, so socioeconomic context is unavailable, and the per-student spending figure ($9,109) dates to 2018–2019 and should not be read as current. Middle-grade results also swing widely year to year — with only about 60–70 students per grade, a 15-point change reflects roughly 9–10 students — so those figures are best treated as volatile estimates rather than firm trends.
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