Summary:
ZIP code 43963, covering Tiltonsville in Jefferson County, is served by exactly one school: Buckeye South Elementary School, a PK–5 building with about 282 students. There is no middle, high, or alternative school in the ZIP, so students move elsewhere after fifth grade. The school belongs to Buckeye Local, a district ranked 510th of 773 in Ohio — the 34th percentile, with a 2-star rating. The school itself also carries a 2-star rating. With only one school in the area, comparisons against other local schools aren't possible; the useful yardsticks are the school's own district, Ohio statewide results, and its own recent history.
The clearest bright spot is fourth-grade English Language Arts: 68.2% proficient in 2025–26, above Ohio's 61.8% and exactly matching the district — the only 2025–26 assessment where the school is not below its district. The prior year was also above state (66.7% versus 61.9%), so this is a two-year pattern rather than a one-off. Attendance is the other relative strength: chronic absenteeism is 26.6% at the school versus 39.5% district-wide, a 12.9-point advantage. That said, roughly one in four students is still chronically absent, so this is a relative win rather than an outright one, and no state benchmark is provided for comparison.
Mathematics is the consistent weak area. The school's math average was 44.3% proficient in 2025–26 against about 63% statewide, and every math assessment in both years fell below the district; fifth-grade science (43.2%) also trailed the state (62.7%). The school's statewide percentile has slipped from 42 to 39 to 32 over three years even though its star rating held steady. Two caveats matter: free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, and per-student spending ($7,904) dates to 2018–19. With a small enrollment, single-grade swings are noisy — the persistent patterns are the more reliable signal.
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