Summary:
ZIP code 44830 is served by a single public high school: Fostoria Junior/Senior High School, a combined grades 7–12 building with 725 students in the Fostoria City district. Because it is the only high school in this ZIP, there is no local peer school to compare it against; the meaningful benchmarks are the district and the state.
The school's profile is a split one. Its strongest number is a 93.9% graduation rate in 2025–2026, which matches the district rate. Its student-teacher ratio of 14.2 in 2024–2025 is moderate. Against that, the school earned 1 star and ranked 670 of 795 schools in 2025–2026 — the 16th percentile — and it has been 1-star for three straight years, with its percentile slipping from 24th to 23rd to 16th. Chronic absenteeism stands at 37.1%, more than one in three students, which is 7.7 percentage points above the district's 29.4%. Test proficiency is below the state in all 11 reported subjects, with the widest gaps in Algebra I (30.2 points below), 8th Grade English Language Arts (29.6 points below), and 7th Grade Mathematics (27.2 points below). Biology is the relative bright spot, 7.4 points below the state.
There are encouraging signs: the school improved in 8 of 11 tests year over year, led by 8th Grade Mathematics (up 10.9 points) and Biology (up 9.2 points), while American Government fell 10.0 points. Even so, the gains have not closed the distance to the state. Note also that because the building covers grades 7 and 8, weak middle-grade results may signal pipeline issues affecting later high school achievement. Some data is limited: free/reduced lunch is not reported, spending figures are from 2018–2019, and no state comparison is provided for graduation or absenteeism. The clearest areas for follow-up are absenteeism, Algebra I, Geometry, 7th Grade Math, and 8th Grade ELA.
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