Summary:
ZIP code 43326 covers Kenton, the seat of Hardin County in northwest Ohio, and is home to four schools serving 1,880 students across elementary, middle, and high school grades: three schools run by Kenton City (which enrolls 98.5% of local students) and one small standalone school, Hardin Community School.
Kenton Elementary School is the largest and strongest local performer: 1,022 students (54% of the ZIP), the area's best rank percentile at 43rd, and the lowest chronic absenteeism among district schools at 12.5%. Kenton Middle School posts the single highest proficiency figure anywhere in the data — 94.3% in 8th grade Algebra I, far above the district (52.3%) and state (61.6%) — but its regular grade-level math and English results trail the state by wide margins. Kenton High School graduates 94.7% of students yet has the area's highest chronic absenteeism (28.1%) and a falling rank trend (38th → 37th → 27th percentile). Hardin Community School, with just 29 students, reports a 100% graduation rate and 4.0% absenteeism but no test-score data, and a single student shifts its figures by about 3.4 points.
A few patterns are worth knowing. Absenteeism climbs sharply with grade level — 12.5% elementary, 20.2% middle, 28.1% high — so attendance is mainly a secondary-level challenge here. The district-wide Algebra I figure of 52.3% blends two very different groups: an accelerated 8th-grade cohort at the middle school and the full 9th-grade population at the high school. Grade 5 math and English have been below state for two straight years, while grade 4 math has been above state both years. Kenton City as a whole ranks 553rd of 773 Ohio districts with 1 star, even though each individual school ranks between the 27th and 43rd percentile. Finally, no test score in this data set was suppressed by the state, so every figure above is an exact reported value.
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