Summary:
ZIP code 43608 in Toledo contains six schools — five elementary schools (four of them serving PK/K through grade 8) and one high school, with no standalone middle school — together enrolling about 1,998 students, and five belong to Toledo City while one is its own single-school district.
Outcomes here are low almost across the board: five of the six schools rank at the 0th–3rd percentile statewide, and Sherman Elementary School ranks 1,554 of 1,560 — only about six schools in Ohio ranked lower. The exception is Rise & Shine Academy, the only school above the 10th percentile (25th) and the only one to earn more than 1 star (2 stars in 2024-25). It also has the lowest chronic absenteeism (36.8%), the highest average test proficiency (about 36.8%, versus 7.7%–10.7% at the other elementaries), and the lowest per-student spending ($6,977 — roughly 31% below the ~$10,180 Toledo City average here). Keep its small size in mind: just 94 students K–6, and its average proficiency fell about 10 points year over year. Woodward High School is the largest school (570 students) and the only one with a graduation rate, 69.2% versus 80.7% for Toledo City.
Two patterns stand out. First, chronic absenteeism is uniformly high: the five Toledo City schools range from 53.6% to 57.3%, all well above the district's 39.8% — in most buildings, more than half of students are chronically absent. Second, proficiency drops sharply after grade 5: pooled across the four Toledo City elementaries, ELA averages 19.7% in grades 3–5 but 7.6% in grades 6–8, while math falls from 7.7% to 3.8%. Nearly one in five 2025-26 test results was exactly 0%. Two data gaps are worth noting: free/reduced-lunch figures are blank for all six schools, and spending data dates back to 2018-19.
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