Summary:
Zip code 43502 contains four schools serving students from kindergarten through high school: one elementary, one middle, and two high schools, with total enrollment of about 2,019 students. Three of them — Archbold Elementary School (K–4), Archbold Middle School (5–8), and Archbold High School (9–12) — belong to Archbold-Area Local and form a complete K–12 pipeline with roughly 1,112 students. The fourth, Four County Career Center (grades 6–12), serves about 907 students and is a separate career center.
Archbold Elementary School is the strongest performer in the zip, earning 5 stars in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026 and ranking around the 90th–92nd percentile statewide, with every listed test score far above the state average and the lowest chronic absenteeism at 5.6%. Archbold Middle School posts an exceptional 100% Algebra I proficiency in both recent years and very strong 5th and 7th grade results, though its rank slipped to the 78th percentile, its chronic absenteeism is the highest in the zip at 8.8%, and its student-teacher ratio is 27.4. Archbold High School graduates 92.6% of students and shines in Biology (91.8%), American History (90.7%), and English II (84.7%), with Geometry its lowest subject at 62.4% — still well above the state's 43.3%.
Across all three Archbold schools, 2025–2026 test averages run roughly 18 to 21.5 percentage points above state averages for the same tests, and the district ranks 103rd of 773 in Ohio at the 87th percentile with 4 stars. Four County Career Center is the largest single school with the highest free/reduced lunch rate (56.12%) and lowest student-teacher ratio (11.3), but it has no test, rank, absenteeism, or graduation data here, so its academics should be treated as unknown rather than weak. Enrollment also drops along the Archbold pipeline — 441 students at the elementary, 345 at the middle, and 326 at the high school — a difference the available data does not explain.
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