Summary:
ZIP code 43943 is home to two schools — Buckeye Local High School (grades 9–12, 359 students) and Buckeye Local Junior High (grades 6–8, 299 students) — both part of the Buckeye Local district, with no elementary or alternative schools listed here and 658 students enrolled in total. The district itself ranks 510th of 773 in Ohio, at the 34th percentile with 2 stars, so both schools are being measured against a district that already sits below the state average in several areas. Free and reduced-lunch percentages are blank for both schools, so economic context for families is not available.
The junior high's clearest bright spot is Algebra I: 90.5% proficiency in 2025–26, far above the district's 42.2% and the state's 61.6%, and up from 75% the year before. It also improved in 8th-grade math (19.2% to 43.0%), 8th-grade science (47.2% to 57.6%) and 6th-grade ELA (38.4% to 47.8%). The weak spots are 7th-grade math at 25.7% against a state figure of 48.6%, and a volatile ranking — 55th percentile in 2023–24, 31st in 2024–25, and 35th in 2025–26, holding 2 stars since 2023–24. Its 2025–26 chronic absenteeism is 44.1%.
At the high school, the standout is a 95.5% graduation rate in 2025–26, matching the district. But chronic absenteeism is 52.1% — more than half of students, and 12.6 points above the district's 39.5%. Proficiency trails the state across most subjects: American Government 64.4%, Biology 54.7%, English II 43.8%, Geometry 23.7% and Algebra I 29.6%. The school ranks 660th of 795, at the 17th percentile with 1 star, and has held 1 star for three straight years. It spends more per student ($9,307 versus $8,788) with a smaller student-teacher ratio (13.0 versus 16.6), though that spending data is from 2018–19. Overall, the junior high shows pockets of excellence and recent gains; the high school pairs a strong graduation rate with weak proficiency and high absenteeism.
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