Summary:
ZIP code 45356 covers Piqua, Ohio, where two high schools serve local students: Upper Valley Career Center, which serves grades 6–12 as part of the Upper Valley Career Center district, and Piqua High School, which serves grades 9–12 in the Piqua City district. Together they enroll 1,919 students — 988 at Upper Valley and 931 at Piqua High — so Upper Valley is slightly larger, by about 6%. The two are not perfectly comparable, since a career-center model and a wider grade span can change how enrollment and outcomes are reported.
Piqua High School has the fuller record and encouraging academic results. Its 2025–2026 graduation rate is 92.9%, matching its district figure. In 2025–2026 it scored at or above the state in all six End-of-Course subjects, averaging about 66.4% against a state average of about 63.2%. English II showed the biggest jump, rising 10.9 points to 68.0% and moving from below state to above state, and American Government also flipped from below to above state. American History slipped 4.3 points to 74.0% but stayed just above state. Even so, Piqua High remains mid-pack in rankings — 419 of 795, the 47th percentile, 2 stars — and its chronic absenteeism rate of 33.8% is well above the district's 24.4%, a gap of 9.4 points.
Upper Valley Career Center looks favorable on the operational measures available: the larger enrollment, a lower student-teacher ratio of 15.9 versus Piqua High's 17.9, and the only reported free/reduced lunch rate, at 39.47%. Piqua High's free/reduced lunch value is not reported here, so it cannot be compared. Crucially, Upper Valley has no test scores, graduation rate, chronic absenteeism, or ranking history in this data, so its academic outcomes cannot be judged against Piqua High's, and no fair academic comparison is possible.
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