Best Public Schools in Zip Code 45449

ZIP code 45449 contains six schools — four elementary, one middle, and one high school — enrolling about 2,915 students. Most of that enrollment (roughly 85%) belongs to West Carrollton City, which operates four of the schools. Bauer Primary School is part of Miamisburg City, and Miami Valley Academies is a small K–8 school with 118 students.

Attendance is the clearest dividing line. Bauer Primary School has the lowest chronic absenteeism here at 16.7% and sits in the highest-ranked district represented, Miamisburg City (48th percentile, 2 stars); it ranked in the 51st percentile with 3 stars in 2023–24, the best recent school-level result in the ZIP. West Carrollton Elementary School (21.1%) and West Carrollton Early Childhood Center (22.0%) also beat the West Carrollton City rate of 27.0%, while West Carrollton Middle School (28.8%) and West Carrollton High School (37.0%) exceed it. Miami Valley Academies has the highest rate at 46.7%, the lowest per-student spending ($7,475), and the lowest district rank (16th percentile, 1 star), though its own rank improved from the 5th to the 22nd percentile.

Test results are mixed rather than uniformly weak. West Carrollton Middle School reports 100% Algebra I proficiency versus a state rate of 61.6% — likely a small advanced cohort — while its grade-level math and ELA stay well below state. West Carrollton Elementary School's 3rd-grade math (65.4%) tops the state's 62.1%, and West Carrollton High School's American Government score (74.5%) is above state, but its Geometry (19.2%) and Algebra I (37.2%) trail far behind. That high school still graduates 91.3% of students. Miami Valley Academies improved broadly from a low base and posts above-state ELA in grades 3 and 8. Note that spending figures are from 2018–19, only Bauer reports free/reduced lunch (49.2%), and the K–1 and K–2 schools have no test scores.