Best High Schools in Zip Code 43762

ZIP code 43762 contains exactly one high school: John Glenn High School, a public school serving grades 8–12 with 542 students on John Glenn School Rd in New Concord, part of East Muskingum Local. Because it is the only school in the ZIP, there is no local peer to compare it against — the meaningful benchmarks are its own district and the state of Ohio. The district ranks 174th of 773 districts (77th percentile, 4 stars), and the school's student–teacher ratio is 17.3:1.

Academically, the school's strengths are concentrated in social studies and English. In 2025-26, 92.4% of students were proficient in American History — 19.2 points above the state (73.2%) — while English II reached 79.7% (17.0 points above state), American Government 82.4% (+10.8) and Biology 78.7% (+11.7). Across the four non-math end-of-course exams, the school averages 83.3% versus the state's 68.6%. The graduation rate is 94.0%, identical at the school and district level.

The concern is math, and specifically Algebra I: 43.6% proficient, 18.0 points below the state (61.6%) and 15.2 points below its own district (58.8%). It fell 19.8 points in a single year while the state improved 2.2 points. Geometry moved the other way, up 5.1 points to 48.9% and above the state, so the weakness looks course-specific rather than a blanket math problem. Chronic absenteeism is 19.1% versus the district's 11.5%, and the school's rank slipped from the 76th to the 65th percentile (4 stars to 3 stars). Two data gaps are worth noting: the free/reduced-lunch percentage is blank, and per-student spending ($8,535) dates to 2018-19.