Summary:
ZIP code 43430 in Genoa, Ohio contains exactly one high school: Genoa Area High School, serving grades 9 through 12 with 369 students, and it belongs to the Genoa Area Local district. Since there is only one high school here, there are no local peers to compare it with, so the most useful yardsticks are its own past results, its district, and Ohio statewide averages.
On the strengths side, the school beat the Ohio average in all six tested subjects in both years — American Government, American History, Biology, English II, Geometry, and Algebra I. Government is the flagship result at 85.8% proficient, 14.2 points above the state, and Biology (79.3%) runs 12.3 points ahead. The graduation rate is an excellent 95.5%, and Geometry improved 5.6 points year over year while still sitting 10.5 points above the state. Just over half of students (52.3%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the school still outperforms the state across the board.
The main concerns are attendance and a recent slide. Chronic absenteeism is 19.8% — nearly 1 in 5 students, and well above the district's 13.9%. Meanwhile, scores fell in four of six subjects, most sharply English II, down 11.4 points, at the same time state averages rose in every subject. That helped push the school from the 76th percentile and 4 stars down to the 62nd percentile and 3 stars. With small class cohorts, a single year's swing can be noisy, but the broad decline alongside rising state results is worth watching.
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