Summary:
ZIP code 43930 (Hammondsville, Ohio) contains exactly one public school — Stanton Elementary School — so parents here are choosing a single building rather than comparing options: it serves grades PK through 6 with 408 students and belongs to Edison Local. Because the ZIP has no middle or high school, families complete the PK–6 years locally and then move outside the area for grades 7–12, most likely to other district buildings.
Academically, the school performs above Ohio averages in nearly every tested grade and subject. Math is its clear strength: every tested grade (3–6) beat the state, from +6.6 points in 4th grade up to +33.1 points in 5th grade, where 92.2% of students were proficient versus 59.1% statewide. Fifth-grade science also stood out at 84.3% against 62.7% statewide, and the school improved in the state rankings for three straight years (rank 673 → 574 → 500, percentile 57 → 63 → 68), while staying at 3 stars. The one soft spot is 6th-grade English language arts, at 55.8% versus 56.0% statewide — essentially level with the state, but the school's weakest result and the only place it did not finish ahead. Grade 5 is the high point and grade 6 the low point, a 26.8-point spread in math between the school's best and weakest grade.
Other indicators are favorable. Chronic absenteeism is 13.0%, better than the district's 14.7%, and the student-teacher ratio is 18.5 to 1 (roughly 22 teachers). About 58.09% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, meaning the above-state results come from a majority economically disadvantaged population. One caution for parents: the per-student spending figure of $10,743 dates from 2018-2019 and should not be used to judge current resources.
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