Summary:
ZIP code 43913 in Brilliant, Ohio, is served by exactly one public school — Buckeye North Elementary School — an elementary building serving grades PK through 5 with 235 students, and no middle, high, or alternative school exists in the ZIP, so every student leaves the area (or at least this building) after 5th grade. It belongs to Buckeye Local, a district ranked in the 34th percentile of Ohio districts (510 of 773) with a 2-star rating, while the school itself sits in the 78th percentile of Ohio schools (343 of 1,560) with 4 stars — a full two-star gap between the building and the system it belongs to.
Academically, the school is a standout. In 2025–26 it beat the state average on all seven reported Ohio State Tests, averaging about 80% proficiency versus roughly 64% statewide and 62.5% district-wide. Grade 3 and grade 4 results were the strongest, running roughly +17 to +29 points above the state in Math and English Language Arts, while grade 5 was the weakest, only barely above state in Math (+1.6) and ELA (+1.0). The improvement is a three-year pattern, not a blip: its statewide percentile climbed 52 → 61 → 78 across 2023–24 through 2025–26. Following students by cohort, one group that trailed state averages in 4th-grade math and reading finished 5th grade above the state in all three subjects, including 82.1% in Science.
Two things are worth watching. Chronic absenteeism is 36.7% — more than one in three students missed at least 10% of school days — only marginally better than the district's 39.5%, and the school's clearest headwind. Staffing looks favorable at 13.8 students per teacher (about 17 instructional positions), and the only spending figure available is $8,289 per student from 2018–19, a seven-year-old number that cannot be assumed to describe current resources. Free/reduced lunch information is not reported, so economic context is unknown rather than favorable.
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