Summary:
ZIP code 44813 (Bellville, Ohio) contains just one high school — Clear Fork High School, which serves grades 8 through 12 and enrolls 412 students as part of the Clear Fork Valley Local district. Because there is only one school in the area, the meaningful comparisons are against its own district and against Ohio as a whole. Nearly three in four students (73.06%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, making this a high-poverty student population. One caveat: the per-student spending figure on file ($9,194) dates to 2018-19 and is too old to describe current resources.
Academically, results are strong in most subjects. On End-of-Course exams the school beats the Ohio average in five of six tested areas — most notably American History (85.5% proficient vs. 73.2% statewide), Biology (81.1% vs. 67.0%) and English II (73.9% vs. 62.7%). American Government is also above state at 81.9%. The graduation rate is 97.5%. Averaged across all six subjects, the school reaches 69.2% proficiency against the state's 63.2%; setting Geometry aside, it averages 76.6% versus roughly 67% statewide.
The clear exception is math. Geometry is the weakest subject by far — 32.2% proficient, 11.1 points below the state — though that is a substantial rebound from 19.5% the year before, when it trailed the state by 23.3 points. Algebra I is moving the other way, falling from 69.9% to 60.6% and slipping from a 10.5-point advantage over the state to a one-point deficit. Chronic absenteeism is the other flag: 19.6% at the high school versus 10.2% district-wide. The school ranks in the 58th percentile statewide with 3 stars, while its district sits in the 74th percentile with 4 stars.
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