Summary:
Zip code 43338 is home to a single high school: Mt Gilead High School, which is part of the Mount Gilead Exempted Village district and serves 274 students in grades 9–12. Because there is only one high school in this area, there is no local school-to-school comparison to make; the most useful way to judge the school is by its own trends over time and by how it performs against its district and Ohio overall. The school has a student-teacher ratio of 10.5 to 1 and per-student spending of $10,016, and 46.35% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–25.
The strongest indicators are graduation and attendance. Mt Gilead High School posted a 95.9% graduation rate for 2025–26, matching the district, and chronic absenteeism of 14.4% — better than the district's 15.8%. Academically, students outperformed the state in five of six End-of-Course tests in 2025–26. American History was the standout at 90.4% proficient, 17.2 points above Ohio, followed by Biology at 80.8% (+13.8 points) and English II at 76.3% (+13.6 points), which also improved 4.7 points from the prior year. Geometry was low in absolute terms at 53.5%, but still 10.2 points above the state's 43.3%.
There are real cautions, though. The school's rank slipped from 183 of 855 (79th percentile, 4 stars) in 2024–25 to 263 of 795 (67th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–26, and its average EOC proficiency fell about 3.6 points while the state average rose. Algebra I is the clearest weak spot: at 60.0% it was the only subject below the state (61.6%), down 7.9 points from the prior year, and 8.9 points behind the district's 68.9%. Overall, this is a school with strong graduation and attendance results and above-state performance in most subjects, but with recent declines worth watching.
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