Summary:
ZIP code 43832 covers Newcomerstown, Ohio, where four schools serve local students — East Elementary School (grades K–1) and West Elementary School (grades 2–5), Newcomerstown Middle School (grades 6–8), and Newcomerstown High School (grades 8–12) — enrolling 869 students combined under the Newcomerstown Exempted Village district, which ranks 469th out of 773 Ohio districts (39th percentile, 2 stars) with a 21.2% chronic absenteeism rate.
Newcomerstown Middle School is the strongest performer in the area. It is the only school with a 3-star rating, ranking 486th of 1,046 schools (54th percentile), and it has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 14.1% plus the smallest classes (student-teacher ratio of 12.1). Its Algebra I End of Course result of 90.9% proficient far exceeds the district's 57.4% and the state's 61.6%, and 8th Grade Science (74.5%) and 7th Grade ELA (68.5%) also beat state averages. Its weak spot is 8th Grade Math at 30.0%, against a state rate of 52.0%.
Newcomerstown High School is mixed: 8th Grade Science (81.8%), American History (77.1%), American Government (73.9%), and Biology (70.7%) top state averages, and its graduation rate is 91.5%, but Geometry (35.7%) and Algebra I (50.9%) fall below state, and it has the area's highest absenteeism at 31.6%. West Elementary School's 3rd grade results (67.2% math, 70.3% ELA) beat state, while 4th Grade Math dropped to 42.6% from 60.7% and lags the state's 67.3%. East Elementary School has no test scores here, as testing starts in later grades. Free/reduced-lunch data are unavailable, and spending figures date to 2018–2019.
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