Summary:
ZIP code 43558 covers Swanton, Ohio, and is served entirely by a single district, Swanton Local, which enrolls 1,111 students across three schools: Swanton Elementary School, Swanton Middle School, and Swanton High School. Together they cover grades PK through 12, and every test score in the data was reported exactly — there are no state-suppressed values and no ranges to interpret.
Swanton Elementary is the strongest building relative to the state, averaging about 16 points above Ohio in reading and math in grades 3–4, and it does so with the largest classes (17.5 students per teacher) and the lowest per-pupil spending in the group ($8,770 in 2018–19). Swanton Middle holds a 4-star rating three years running and ranks at the 71st percentile; its Algebra I results — 92.9% proficient this year and 100% the year before, against roughly 62% statewide — are the most striking numbers in the file. Swanton High earns only 2 stars and ranks at the 43rd percentile, but that rating rests almost entirely on two math exams: Geometry came in at just 6.3% proficient versus 43.3% statewide, a 37-point gap that follows a prior year when the school was above state. On its four other End-of-Course exams the high school averages 77.8% versus 68.6% statewide and graduates 97% of its students.
The clearest district-wide pattern for parents to watch is chronic absenteeism, which climbs from 9.2% at the elementary to 16.1% at the middle school to 23.5% at the high school, against a 15.1% district benchmark — tracking the same direction as the shrinking advantage over state averages in the upper grades. Both ranked buildings have also slipped in statewide percentile even where absolute scores improved, meaning other Ohio schools moved faster rather than Swanton getting worse.
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