Summary:
ZIP 45334 in Jackson Center, Ohio has exactly two public schools — Jackson Center Elementary School (PK–6, 330 students) and Jackson Center High School (7–12, 246 students) — both part of the Jackson Center Local district and both on a single campus at 204 S Linden St.
Jackson Center Elementary is the headline performer. It ranks 17th out of 1,560 Ohio elementary schools (99th percentile, 5 stars), up from 63rd of 1,558 the year before, and it has held 5 stars across all three reported years. Composite proficiency is about 94.3% across nine tested subject/grade combinations — roughly 32 points above the state average — including 100% proficient in 4th-grade math, 5th-grade math, and 3rd-grade ELA. Scores improved in 8 of 9 tested areas year over year, with the biggest jump in 6th-grade ELA (62.5% to 80.9%). Math (~97.7%) is its strongest strand; ELA (~90.7%) is comparatively its softest.
Jackson Center High School is strong and rising, but a notch below its elementary feeder: it ranks 83rd of 795 Ohio high schools (90th percentile, 4 stars), climbing 152nd, then 139th, then 83rd over three years. Composite proficiency is about 82.7%, roughly 22.5 points above the state average, with Algebra I at 97.5% and Geometry at 91.4% — 48.1 points above the state. Its graduation rate is 92.5%, and it reports 72.36% free/reduced lunch, so results are not explained by affluence (the elementary's lunch figure is not reported). Watch three things: ELA is the weakest strand (~73.4%, including 8th-grade ELA at 64.7%), American Government (73.3%) is the only exam near the state average, and chronic absenteeism (10.3%) is about 2.8 times the elementary's 3.7%. Note also that the high school's composite slipped slightly while its rank rose, and that per-student spending figures date to 2018–19.
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