Summary:
Zip code 44505 contains six schools — two elementary, two middle, and two high schools — serving about 2,314 students across two districts, Youngstown City (1,217 students) and Liberty Local (1,097 students). The two districts show very different results, so which district a school belongs to matters as much as which grade it serves.
The strongest options here are in Liberty Local. Liberty High School graduates 94.9% of students, compared with 87.5% at East High School, and beats East High in five of six End-of-Course subjects, including Biology (68.9% vs. 20.9%) and Algebra I (63.2% vs. 17.7%). E J Blott Elementary School posts 3rd-grade ELA proficiency of 70.9% — above the state's 63.4% — versus 20.9% at M L King Elementary School, and has the smallest classes at 10.3 students per teacher. William S Guy Middle School has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the zip code (23.9%) and 6th-grade math at 64.3%, above the state's 56.2%. By contrast, East Middle at PRBerry ranks in the 1st percentile with 6th-grade math at 1.3% and 7th-grade math at 1.2%.
Attendance tracks closely with achievement: the two schools with the highest chronic absenteeism, East High (76.6%) and East Middle at PRBerry (73.6%), also have the lowest test results, while the two with the lowest, William S Guy and E J Blott, show stronger outcomes. Spending and class size do not follow a simple pattern — East Middle has the highest per-student spending ($13,700, from 2018–2019) yet the weakest proficiency. Free/reduced-lunch data is reported for only two schools, both high (80.89% and 98.82%), so poverty status is unknown for the other four. The biggest takeaway for parents is how widely schools in one zip code can differ at the same grade level.
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