Summary:
ZIP code 43920, in the East Liverpool area along the Ohio River, is home to 9 schools serving students from kindergarten through 12th grade — 3 elementary, 3 middle, 2 high and 1 alternative/online school — with 4,134 students enrolled across Beaver Local, East Liverpool City and Buckeye On-Line School for Success.
The academic leaders are the Beaver Local schools. Beaver Local Middle School is the strongest, earning 4 stars and a 72nd-percentile rank, with average proficiency around 73.1% against about 59.0% statewide — including 8th grade math at 82.5% and 5th grade English Language Arts at 80.9%. Beaver Local High School reports a 98.7% graduation rate and beats the state in five of six End-of-Course subjects, while reporting 99.45% free/reduced-price lunch — a sign that high economic need does not automatically mean low achievement. Beaver Local Elementary School also scores above state at about 67.6%. Still, all three Beaver Local schools have slipped in rank percentile over the past three years, a trend worth watching.
The other half of the picture looks very different. East Liverpool High School averages about 50.8% proficiency against 63.2% statewide and has the area's highest chronic absenteeism at 45.9%. Lacroft Elementary School averages about 40.3% and Westgate Middle School about 38.2%, the lowest in the ZIP. North Elementary School is improving and reached 2 stars at about 51.6%, and Buckeye On-Line School for Success jumped from roughly 36.5% to 47.8% but still trails state, with math a persistent weakness. Attendance tracks loosely with achievement, while spending and class size do not line up simply with results.
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