Summary:
ZIP code 44851 serves New London, Ohio, and contains three public schools — one elementary, one middle and one high school — all part of the New London Local district and all located at the same address on Wildcat Drive. Together they enroll 892 students: New London Elementary School (464 students, PK–5), New London Middle School (204 students, 6–8) and New London High School (224 students, 9–12). The district itself ranks 434th of 773 Ohio districts, in the 44th percentile with 2 stars, which makes the high school a clear positive outlier.
New London High School is the only school here rated 3 stars, ranking in the 55th percentile and beating the state in five of six tested subjects in 2025–2026 — most strongly in Geometry (59% vs. 43.3%), American Government (82% vs. 71.6%) and Algebra I (72.3% vs. 61.6%). Its graduation rate is 93.5%. However, its chronic absenteeism of 19.9% is far above the district's 12.4% and more than double the elementary school's 9.7%. New London Middle School (2 stars, 45th percentile) has the ZIP's biggest academic gaps in 6th grade, where math is 17.6 points below state and ELA 16.3 points below, though its 8th-grade math and science are above state. New London Elementary School (2 stars, 45th percentile) is above state in 3rd- and 4th-grade math and 5th-grade science, but below state in ELA at every tested grade, including a 15-point gap in 3rd grade.
Resources differ by level: the high school has the smallest classes (9.7 students per teacher) and the highest per-pupil spending ($9,733), while the elementary school has the largest enrollment, the highest student/teacher ratio (17.8) and the lowest spending ($8,472). All three schools have slipped in rank percentile since 2023–2024. Free/reduced lunch is reported only for the middle school, at 98.53%, so no comparison across schools is possible.
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