Summary:
ZIP code 44076 is home to three schools — Grand Valley Elementary School (K–4, 369 students), Grand Valley Middle School (5–8, 172 students), and Grand Valley High School (9–12, 273 students) — all part of Grand Valley Local in Orwell, Ohio. The three share one campus at 111 Grand Valley Ave West and together enroll 814 students. The district is rated 2 stars and ranks 454 of 773 Ohio districts, or the 41st percentile, and each individual school is also currently rated 2 stars. Percentiles are similar across the three: elementary 47, middle 47, high 44. That said, 2024–2025 was a high-water mark, when the middle and high schools each reached 3 stars before slipping back.
Each school has a distinct profile. The middle school has the sharpest split: Algebra I proficiency is 90.5% against a state rate of 61.6%, with 7th grade ELA at 77.4% and 8th grade science at 73.2%, yet 8th grade math is only 35.1%, 6th grade math 45.6%, and 7th grade math 42.3%. The high school graduates 96.9% of students and beats the state in Algebra I (76.7% vs 61.6%), American Government, Biology, and English II, but Geometry is a clear weak point at 35.1%, down from 44.8% the prior year. The elementary school pairs the lowest chronic absenteeism in the group (18.0% vs the district’s 24.3%) with 4th grade math at 73.8% and 5th grade science at 70.7%, even though it has the highest free/reduced lunch rate (68.02%) and the largest student-teacher ratio (16.7).
Absenteeism climbs with grade level — 18.0% elementary, 24.7% middle, 31.9% high — so the high school’s strong graduation rate sits alongside its biggest attendance concern. Per-student spending is nearly identical across the three schools (roughly $9,000–$9,300, from 2018–2019), while student-teacher ratios range from 12.9 at the middle school to 16.7 at the elementary. The main areas to watch are middle-grade math, 6th grade ELA, high school Geometry, and high school absenteeism.
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