Best Public Schools in Zip Code 45459

Zip code 45459 has 8 schools—4 elementary, 3 middle, and 1 high—all in the Centerville City district, serving PK–12 and enrolling 6,335 students. The district is ranked 142 of 773 Ohio districts, at the 82nd percentile with 4 stars, but school-level results range from 58 to 95 percentile and 3 to 5 stars. Centerville High School enrolls 2,720, about 42.9% of the zip total.

Top standouts are Dr John Hole Elementary School and Tower Heights Middle School. Dr John Hole is 95th percentile, 5 stars, with the lowest chronic absenteeism at 6.1% versus the district’s 14.6%, and beats district and state in every tested 2025–26 subject while improving +3.7 points. Tower Heights is 92nd percentile, 5 stars, with the lowest middle-school absenteeism at 10.6% and the zip’s lowest FRPL rate at 19.96%, above the district in every tested subject with +3.7 improvement. Centerville High School is 89th percentile, 4 stars, with a 97.4% graduation rate, but has the highest absenteeism at 18.4%; Geometry is 64.3%, below the district’s 68.1% but above the state’s 43.3%. Normandy Elementary School is the only 3-star school, 58th percentile, below the district in all seven tested subjects, down -7.0 points, with the highest FRPL at 36.36%.

Comparisons need care: all three middle schools show 100% Geometry and Algebra I EOC proficiency, likely because only selected accelerated students take them, so they should not be compared directly with Centerville High School’s broader scores. Stingley Elementary School is 72nd percentile, 4 stars, but Math 5 is 60.5%, below the district’s 76.3% and above the state’s 59.1%; it has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 16.8. Centerville Primary Village North (PK–1) has no test or rank data and the highest ratio at 22.2. Spending and class size are not simple predictors: Hadley E Watts Middle School has the lowest 2018–19 spending at $9,000 yet ranks 78th percentile, while Dr John Hole Elementary School has the highest at $13,586 and is top-ranked. Rank trends show Dr John Hole Elementary School rising 89th→91st→95th, Tower Heights Middle School 84th→88th→92nd, and Normandy Elementary School falling 74th→72nd→58th.