Summary:
ZIP code 43449 (Oak Harbor, Ohio) contains just one high school on this list: Oak Harbor High School, a 669-student building serving grades 7 through 12 within the Benton Carroll Salem Local district. Because it is the only school in the area, there is no local peer to compare it against — but it helps to know this is not a traditional 9–12 high school. It also houses seventh and eighth graders, which is why state results for those middle grades appear alongside the high school End-of-Course exams.
Academically, the school is strong and remarkably consistent. In both 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 it beat the Ohio state average in all eleven subjects tested — every single one. Average proficiency across those subjects sits near 82%, against a state average around 60%, a gap of more than 21 points. The widest edges come in the subjects Ohio finds hardest: Geometry (+30.2 points over the state), 8th-grade Science (+28.1), and 7th-grade Math (+27.8). The school has ranked in the 89th–91st percentile of Ohio high schools for three straight years, earning four to five stars, and 99.2% of its students graduate. Composite proficiency barely changed year over year, suggesting steady performance rather than one lucky group of students.
The main thing to watch is attendance: 13.1% of students are chronically absent, versus 8.6% across the district — the only measure where the school trails its own district context, though some of that likely reflects the middle grades it serves. Scores also slipped in 8th-grade Math (down 10 points to 72.6%) and American Government (down 4.8 to 84.4%), even though both remain well above state averages. Staffing is lean at 18.3 students per teacher, or roughly 37 teachers for 669 students, and the reported per-pupil spending of $12,239 dates from 2018-2019, so treat it as historical context rather than a current figure.
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