Summary:
ZIP 44413 is served entirely by East Palestine City, a single PK–12 district operating three schools with no charter or alternative options in the data: East Palestine Elementary School (PK–4, 415 students), East Palestine Middle School (5–8, 265 students) and East Palestine High School (9–12, 269 students), together enrolling 949 students. All three buildings carry a 2-star rating for 2025-26, yet their trajectories differ sharply. The district's 36th-percentile composite sits below both the elementary (47th) and the middle school (48th) because the high school's 32nd percentile pulls the district number down.
The middle school is the standout: it climbed from the 33rd to the 48th percentile in one year, the only building to improve, with gains in 6th, 7th and 8th grade math and English. Its Algebra I proficiency of 89.5% is the highest figure anywhere in this data set, well above the state's 61.6%. Fourth grade at the elementary school also beat the state in both math and ELA in both years. Against that, the high school records Algebra I at 29.3% — the same course, a 60-point gap between buildings — with the district's 48.3% aggregate masking both the best and worst results.
The high school is strong in social studies (American Government 83.5% vs. 71.6% state; American History 80.0% vs. 73.2%) and graduates 94.3% of students, but its math results are the weakest in the data set: Geometry 18.8% and Algebra I 29.3%. Chronic absenteeism rises steadily by level — 16.7% at the elementary, 24.1% at the middle, 36.8% at the high school, which is the only building above the district's 24.7% norm. Per-student spending (2018-19) was highest at the high school ($9,541) and lowest at the elementary ($6,777). Free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported for any school.
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