Summary:
ZIP code 44231 in Garrettsville, Ohio is home to a single public high school — James A Garfield High School, serving grades 9 through 12 with 362 students — so families here have one campus to consider rather than a set of options to compare.
That school is performing well above the state average. It beat Ohio's proficiency rate in all 12 subject-and-year comparisons available, across six End-of-Course exams in 2024-25 and 2025-26. Its clearest strength is Geometry, where 73.3% of students were proficient in 2025-26 against a state rate of 43.3% — a 30-point advantage that held the prior year as well (+23.9). Mean proficiency across the six exams was 77.2% in 2025-26, versus 63.2% statewide. Algebra I is the one recurring soft spot: it is the only subject where the school trails its own district, by 6.3 points in 2025-26 and 7.1 points in 2024-25, though the school's own Algebra I score rose 6.8 points year over year, the largest single-subject gain. Overall the school ranks 190 of 795 Ohio high schools (76th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025-26, up from 263 two years earlier, and well above the James A Garfield Local district's 63rd percentile and 3-star rating.
Outcomes and context: the graduation rate is 95.3%, essentially matching the district's 95.4%. The most notable concern is chronic absenteeism at 23.5% — roughly one in four students, and five points worse than the district's 18.5%. About 57.18% of students are eligible for free/reduced lunch, and per-student spending was $8,575 in 2018-19, an older figure best read as historical context. For parents, the takeaway is strong, steadily improving academics, with attendance as the area to watch.
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