Summary:
ZIP code 43326 covers Kenton, Ohio, and includes two high schools serving grades 7 through 12: Kenton High School, a district-run school in Kenton City with 544 students in grades 9–12, and Hardin Community School, a much smaller school with 29 students in grades 7–12. The two schools have very different profiles, and families should compare them carefully rather than treating the area as having one typical high school.
Kenton High School is the larger comprehensive option and the only one with test-score detail in this file. American Government is its clear strength: 76.1% proficient in 2025–2026 versus a state rate of 71.6%, and 75.6% versus 72.6% the year before. Biology was above the state in 2024–2025 at 67.4% versus 65.4%, but fell below in 2025–2026 at 63.2% versus 67%. Algebra I is the biggest concern, at 36.6% proficient in 2025–2026 — 25.0 percentage points below the state and 15.7 points below its own district. Chronic absenteeism is 28.1%, well above the Kenton City district figure of 18.7%, and the school's rank slipped to 1 star and the 27th percentile in 2025–2026 from 2 stars and the 37th–38th percentile in the two prior years.
Hardin Community School stands out for completion and attendance: a 100.0% graduation rate and 4.0% chronic absenteeism, with 89.66% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Those are strong signals, but the school enrolls only 29 students, so a single student can shift a rate by several percentage points, and its student-teacher ratio of 29 is much higher than Kenton's 16.4. No test scores, spending, or current rank are provided here, and its last available ranks were 792 of 864 in 2023–2024 and 834 of 836 in 2021–2022. Families comparing the two should weigh Kenton's fuller academic record, including its Algebra I and absenteeism challenges, against Hardin's small-cohort completion results, for which academic proficiency remains unknown in this data set.
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