Best Public Schools in Zip Code 44437

ZIP code 44437 covers the Village of McDonald in Trumbull County, Ohio, and it holds just two public schools: Roosevelt Elementary School, serving grades K–6 with 383 students, and McDonald High School, serving grades 6–12 with 338 students. Both belong to the McDonald Local district, which ranks 181st of 773 Ohio districts (77th percentile, 4 stars), so the district's entire K–12 pipeline runs through these two buildings.

McDonald High School is the higher-ranked building, at 130th of 795 Ohio high schools (84th percentile, 4 stars), with a 96.8% graduation rate. Its strongest results are in social studies and English: American History 95.9% proficient (state 73.2), English II 90.2% (state 62.7), Government 90.2% (state 71.6) and Biology 86% (state 67). Roosevelt Elementary School ranks 397th of 1,560 elementary schools (75th percentile, 4 stars) and stands out for attendance — chronic absenteeism of 12.8% against a district figure of 16.8% — and for grade 5, where ELA reached 87.8% (state 70.4), math 78% (state 59.1) and science 80.5% (state 62.7). Both are above-average Ohio schools: 38 of the 40 school-level test rows in the data beat the state proficiency rate.

The main watch items sit at the middle and high school level. McDonald High School's chronic absenteeism is 21.9%, 9.1 points above the elementary's rate, yet it still posts the higher rank. Its lowest results cluster in grades 6–8 and Geometry — Geometry 48.9%, Math 7 59.2%, Math 8 59.4% and ELA 7 61.2%, the last being 1.5 points below the state and the only 2025-26 row in the data set under it. Ranking has also slipped: the high school fell from 96th percentile with 5 stars in 2023-24 to 88th, then 84th, while the elementary drifted from 78th to 75th. With only about 45–55 test-takers per grade, one student is worth roughly 2 percentage points, so a single year of movement should be read cautiously.