Summary:
Zip code 44663 is home to 9 schools serving roughly 4,474 students across elementary, middle, high school, career-tech, and digital/alternative settings, with the New Philadelphia City district accounting for about 60% of enrollment across 7 schools. The remaining students attend Quaker Digital Academy (915 students) or Buckeye Career Center (876 students, grades 11-12 only). Four schools are elementary, two are middle, and two are high school.
For parents comparing academics, the strongest results come from New Philadelphia City schools. Joseph Welty Middle School stands out most: Algebra I proficiency was 100% in 2024-2025 versus a 59.4% state rate, and 97.9% in 2025-2026 versus 61.6%. Central Elementary School, though the smallest school in the area at 195 students, posts high grade 5 results in science, math, and ELA. West Elementary School shows a striking recent jump — its 2025-2026 4th grade math proficiency was 85.1% versus 67.3% statewide — despite low 2016-2019 rank history. South Elementary School is also consistently above state, and New Philadelphia High School beats state on nearly every End-of-Course exam, with English II its biggest margin at 12.6 points.
The sharpest contrast is Quaker Digital Academy, the largest school in the zip code, where all 16 listed assessments fall below state and average proficiency was 25.1% versus 59.0% in 2024-2025; its student-teacher ratio of 63.2 far exceeds the 15.2-19.6 range elsewhere. Absenteeism climbs with grade level, from about 10-15% in elementary schools to 19.3% at Welty and 25.2% at the high school. Buckeye Career Center remains a data gap, and East Elementary and York Elementary have no test scores listed here.
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