Summary:
ZIP code 43952 covers Steubenville, Ohio, where six public schools — four elementaries (PK–4), one middle school (5–8), and one high school (9–12) — together serve about 2,841 students, all within the Steubenville City district, which itself ranks 21st of 773 Ohio districts. Families here have a small, self-contained system with no alternative schools in the ZIP, so students move through a single elementary-to-middle-to-high-school pipeline.
The standouts are remarkable even by state standards. Wells Academy has been ranked the No. 1 elementary school in Ohio for three straight years, with 11 of its 12 reported test results at 100% proficient and 0.0% chronic absenteeism. McKinley STEM Academy ranks 8th of 1,560 elementaries, and Pugliese Elementary West sits at 22nd with the steadiest record among the larger elementaries. East Garfield Elementary School made the biggest leap, rising from 302nd to 75th. Steubenville High School climbed to 40th of 795 high schools with a 99.5% graduation rate, while Harding Middle School is strongest in math, where grades 5–8 run 25–46 points above the state.
Across the ZIP, 72 of 74 reported test results are at or above the state average, and no 2025‑26 result falls below it. Chronic absenteeism splits by grade level: the three elementaries post 0.0%, 0.4%, and 1.2%, while McKinley STEM (7.7%), Harding (9.1%), and the high school (10.8%) exceed the district's 6.3%. Notably, 2024‑25 was a dip year for five of six schools, followed by a broad rebound. The only below-state scores in the data belong to Harding's 2024‑25 8th-grade ELA and Science, both recovered in 2025‑26. Resource data is thin — per-student spending dates to 2018‑19 and free/reduced-lunch figures are unreported — so spending and student-teacher ratios show no clear link to results here.
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