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Best High Schools in Zip Code 44074

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At a glance

Schools

1,883

Students

Districts

Top rankedFirelands High School199^th of 795 Ohio high schools

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Biggest riser

Oberlin High School up 25 spots statewide this year

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Summary:

ZIP code 44074 in Lorain County, Ohio is home to three public high schools serving grades 9–12 — William R Burton, Firelands High School, and Oberlin High School — enrolling 1,883 students altogether.

William R Burton is the largest school, with 1,194 students, or about 63% of all high schoolers in the ZIP. It belongs to Lorain County JVS, a career and technical district, and the state does not publish test, graduation, absenteeism, or spending figures for it here, so it can't be compared academically with the other two. The two comprehensive high schools, Firelands High School (471 students) in Firelands Local and Oberlin High School (218 students) in Oberlin City Schools, do have full data.

Firelands is the stronger performer: 4 stars, a 77th percentile rank, and test proficiency above the state average in every subject in both 2025-2026 and 2024-2025. Oberlin holds 2 stars and a 42nd percentile rank, and while it beats the state in English II, American Government, and American History, it trails in Biology, Algebra I, and especially Geometry, where proficiency was 23.1% in 2025-2026 against a state average of 43.3%. Both schools graduate 98.5% of students, but Oberlin's chronic absenteeism is 20.1% versus 15.8% at Firelands. Oberlin does have the smaller classes and higher spending — a 10.7 student-teacher ratio and $12,370 per student (2018-2019) versus 16.8 and $9,312 at Firelands — yet that advantage has not shown up in higher ratings or math and science results. Free/reduced lunch rates are similar at the two schools, and both report more absenteeism than their districts overall.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				Ohio State Tests American Government (2026)	Ohio State Tests American History (2026)	Ohio State Tests Biology (2026)	Ohio State Tests English II (2026)	Ohio State Tests Geometry (2026)	Ohio State Tests Algebra I (2026)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients (2025)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	Ohio State Tests American Government End of Course	Ohio State Tests American History End of Course	Ohio State Tests Biology End of Course	Ohio State Tests English II End of Course	Ohio State Tests Geometry End of Course	Ohio State Tests Algebra I End of Course	Total
Oberlin High School	Public	9-12	281 N Pleasant St	Oberlin	44074	Lorain County	Oberlin City Schools	No	(n/a)	No	No	(440) 774-1295	218	20	10.7	51.8%	113 (51.8%)	35 (16.1%)	31 (14.2%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	39 (17.9%)	43.6	486^th of 795 public high schools	38.9%		45.6	511^th of 855 public high schools	40.2%	25	80.3	75.9	62.5	72.1	23.1	52.8	$21,942
Firelands High School	Public	9-12	10521 Vermilion Rd	Oberlin	44074	Lorain County	Firelands Local	No	(n/a)	No	No	(440) 965-4255	471	28	16.8	55.0%	425 (90.2%)	5 (1.1%)	33 (7.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	8 (1.7%)	66.2	199^th of 795 public high schools	75.0%		70.7	185^th of 855 public high schools	78.4%	14	82.0	85.8	76.7	71.9	60.6	79.3	$12,720
William R Burton	Public	9-12	15181 State Route 58	Oberlin	44074	Lorain County	Lorain County JVS	No	(n/a)	No	No	(440) 774-1051	1,194	93	12.7		901 (75.5%)	77 (6.4%)	150 (12.6%)	5 (0.4%)	4 (0.3%)	1 (0.1%)	56 (4.7%)								(n/a)

Cities Near Zip Code 44074

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Oberlin	1.14 mi	7	288^th
Amherst	7.43 mi	4	162^nd
Lagrange	7.47 mi	3	312^th
Wellington	7.55 mi	3	495^th
Elyria	7.96 mi	13	619^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Ohio Department of Education.

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