Summary:
ZIP code 44202 is served by exactly one high school: Aurora High School, part of the Aurora City district. It serves grades 9–12 with 984 students, so families here have a single local public high school option, and the most useful comparisons are against its own district and the state of Ohio.
Aurora High School is a top-tier school by state measures. The Aurora City district ranks 30th of 773 districts in Ohio (96th percentile, 5 stars), and the high school has held 5 stars for three straight years: 20th of 795 schools in 2025–2026 (97th percentile), 13th of 855 in 2024–2025 (98th percentile), and 30th of 864 in 2023–2024 (97th percentile). Test proficiency is far above the state in every reported End-of-Course subject. In 2025–2026, American Government reached 98%, American History 97.8%, English II 96.2%, Biology 92.5%, Algebra I 87%, and Geometry 83.8% — compared with state rates between about 43% and 73%. The school's average across subjects is roughly 92.6%, versus about 63.2% statewide. The graduation rate is 97.9%, matching the district.
Two areas are worth watching. Math is the relative weak spot: Geometry and Algebra I are the lowest school scores and both slipped from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 (Geometry down 3.3 points to 83.8%; Algebra I down 3.1 points to 87%), while state scores in those subjects rose. Both still trail the district by 2.3 and 6.1 points respectively. Chronic absenteeism is 11.1% at the school versus 8.4% in the district — roughly 1 in 9 students — which stands out against otherwise elite outcomes. Free/reduced lunch is 9.86%, the student-teacher ratio is 16:1, and per-student spending is listed at $11,795 for 2018–2019, an older figure that should not be treated as current.
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