Best Public Schools in Zip Code 44659

ZIP code 44659 in Mount Eaton (Wayne County, Ohio) is home to exactly one school — Beacon Hill Community School AKA Beacon Hill Academy — an alternative school serving grades K–10 with 176 students, which also operates as its own standalone Beacon Hill Community School AKA Beacon Hill Academy district rather than belonging to a larger local system. Because it is the only school in the ZIP, families here have no traditional district elementary, middle, or high school option inside the ZIP code, and the school's mix of elementary-age children alongside older students makes it an unusual alternative setting.

Academically, the school's strongest story is math. Its six tested grades averaged 70.7% proficient in 2025–2026 versus a state average of 57.6%, a gap of +13.2 points, and that advantage held the year before as well (+10.7). The middle grades drive the result: 6th grade math ran +23.8 points above the state, 8th grade +21.3, and 7th grade +29.7 — the largest positive gap anywhere in the two years of data. Overall, the school beat the state in 11 of 14 tested grade-subject combinations in both years, averaging about 8 points ahead (+7.9 and +8.0), a margin that has stayed steady even as individual grades swing.

There are real soft spots. Early-grade English language arts is the clearest: 4th grade ELA fell below the state in both years (50.0 vs. 61.8 in 2025–2026), and 3rd grade ELA slipped below the state (52.6 vs. 63.4) after being above it the prior year. Fifth-grade math is the only math grade below the state (55.6 vs. 59.1) and dropped 13.2 points while the state rose. Science, tested in only two grades, fell from a +18.3 average gap to +4.8. With roughly 15–25 students per grade, single-grade swings of 10–30 points can reflect just a handful of students. Context data are thin: chronic absenteeism is 13.8%, free/reduced-price lunch 36.36%, student-teacher ratio 18.2, and per-student spending of $9,179 dates to 2018–2019.