Best Public Schools in Zip Code 43607

ZIP code 43607 contains five schools serving roughly 1,012 students: four elementary schools — three K–8 and one PK–6 — and one small alternative campus covering grades 2–12, with no middle school and no high school anywhere in the ZIP, so local students leave the area after grade 6 or 8 for secondary education. Three of the elementaries — Keyser Elementary School, Pickett Elementary School and Martin Luther King Academy for Boys Elementary School — are Toledo City campuses. The fourth, Toledo Preparatory and Fitness Academy, and The Autism Academy Of Learning are each their own single-school charter district.

Toledo Preparatory and Fitness Academy is the clear academic leader: it beats the other three elementaries in all 14 grade-and-subject comparisons, is the only ZIP school to top the state average in any cell (grade 3 and grade 4 ELA), and is the only one rated 2 stars. It does this with the second-highest student-teacher ratio (18.2), the lowest elementary per-student spending ($7,247, from 2018–19) and the highest chronic absenteeism (53.9%). The Autism Academy Of Learning has the best climate numbers — lowest absenteeism (22.8%) and smallest classes (10.6 students per teacher) — but no published test scores. Among the district schools, Keyser has the largest enrollment (306) and strongest ELA average (24.9%); Pickett shows genuine grade-5 strength (36.8% in both Math and Science); Martin Luther King Academy ranks in the bottom 3% of Ohio schools and reported 0% proficiency in grade-5 and grade-6 Math.

ZIP-wide absenteeism averages 42%, reaching 53–54% at two schools. Only four cells across the entire ZIP beat their benchmark, and the three Toledo City schools sit roughly 37–50 points below state averages in every subject. Science is falling fastest, down 9.8 points at Keyser and 16.2 at Martin Luther King. Even real local gains — Keyser's Math up 5.5 points — barely move statewide percentile rankings, and Toledo Preparatory's rank slid from the 77th percentile to 38 while its proficiency stayed essentially flat.