Best Public Schools in Zip Code 45432

ZIP code 45432 contains three public schools — two elementary schools and one middle school — serving roughly 1,467 students combined, with no high school inside the ZIP, so older students travel elsewhere for high school. Unusually, this single ZIP is split across three districts of very different performance levels: Beavercreek City (80th percentile statewide), Mad River Local (40th percentile), and Dayton City (6th percentile). Which school a child attends depends heavily on the specific address, not the ZIP alone.

Parkwood Elementary School is the standout, scoring above the Ohio average in all seven tested subjects in both years — averaging 76.4% proficiency versus 63.8% statewide — and ranking 72nd percentile with 4 stars. It sits below its own high-performing district average in all seven subjects, however. Spinning Hills Middle School (5-6) performs near the state average (61.5% vs. 60.9%) and above its district, but its grade 5 results beat the state while grade 6 falls below it in both math and ELA. Eastmont Elementary School has the lowest raw scores in the group (34.8% average vs. 62.1% statewide), yet outperforms its own district in eight of nine subjects and reports chronic absenteeism of 18.1% against a district rate of 43.8%.

Grade 5 allows the cleanest three-way comparison, and the gap is striking: math proficiency runs 78.1% at Parkwood, 61.4% at Spinning Hills, and 28.1% at Eastmont — a 50-point spread within one ZIP code. Class sizes line up with results (15.6, 19.0, and 21.7 students per teacher), though poverty and district differences are entangled with them, and free/reduced-price lunch is reported for only one school, limiting equity comparisons. One encouraging shared trend: all three schools improved in grade 5 math and ELA by more than the state did.