Summary:
ZIP 43701 covers the Zanesville area of Muskingum County and contains 16 schools — 7 elementary, 3 middle, and 6 high schools, with no alternative schools — serving about 7,800 students across four public districts plus several standalone career and community providers. Enrollment ranges from 124 students at Foxfire Intermediate School to 915 at Zane Grey Elementary School, with a median of 467 students per school.
The strongest results in the area come from West Muskingum Local, where West Muskingum Elementary School and West Muskingum Middle School both earned 4 stars and scored well above the state in most subjects, and the elementary school improved from the 53rd to the 79th percentile over three years. Perry Elementary School, part of the highly rated East Muskingum Local, has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the ZIP at 5.0%, though it serves only PK-2 and has no current test scores. By contrast, Zanesville City schools generally post the lowest outcomes, with bright spots such as John McIntire Elementary School.
Two patterns are worth noting. First, high school math is a shared weakness: West Muskingum High School and Maysville High School are strong in social studies and English but fall below the state in Geometry and Algebra I. Second, graduation rates stay at 97% or higher everywhere, even where test proficiency is very low, so they alone say little about achievement. Chronic absenteeism, meanwhile, tracks performance closely — highest at Foxfire High School (45.8%) and Zanesville Community High School (42.2%). Spending figures date to 2018-2019, and many schools have missing free/reduced-lunch or test data.
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