Summary:
Families in ZIP code 44021 (Burton, Ohio) have one public high school option: Berkshire High School, which serves grades 9–12 with 437 students and belongs to the Berkshire Local district. Because it is the district's only high school, school and district figures are nearly identical throughout the data. The school ranks 261st of 795 Ohio high schools — the 67th percentile, with a 3-star rating.
Academics are the strongest part of the picture. The school scores above the Ohio average in every tested subject in both available years — government, American history, biology, English II and geometry — by roughly 5 to 16 points, with a single exception: Algebra I in 2024–25, when it fell 7.2 points below the state. That subject then staged the biggest turnaround in the data, climbing 18.7 points to 70.9%, which is 9.3 points above the state. Geometry is the lowest-scoring subject in both years (about 53%) but still beats the state by nearly 10 points. Graduation is essentially universal at 98.2%. The main caution is attendance: 18.9% of students are chronically absent, above the district's 13.3%. Classes are fairly large at 21.5 students per teacher, and about 30% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
The trajectory has been upward: the school moved from 411th (52nd percentile) two years ago to 285th and now 261st. Note that the gains are lopsided rather than across the board — Algebra I drove most of the improvement, while English II, government and biology slipped modestly. For parents, the takeaway is a school with strong, consistently above-state results and near-perfect graduation, offset by attendance concerns and stagnant geometry scores. Per-student spending in the file ($10,248) dates to 2018–19 and should not be read as current.
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