Best Public Schools in Zip Code 45619

ZIP code 45619 covers Chesapeake, Ohio, and includes four listed schools — one elementary, one middle and two high schools — enrolling about 1,788 students combined. Three are operated by Chesapeake Union Exempted Village (1,219 students): Chesapeake Elementary School, Chesapeake Middle School and Chesapeake High School. The fourth, Lawrence County, is listed under the Lawrence County district as a grades 6–12 high school with 569 students, the largest single enrollment in the area.

Chesapeake Elementary School is the clear standout: 35th of 1,560 Ohio elementary schools in 2025–2026, the 98th percentile with 5 stars, with proficiency in the tested grades roughly 23–33 percentage points above the state and the lowest chronic absenteeism of the three Chesapeake schools at 10.4%. Chesapeake Middle School is steadily improving — from the 46th to the 62nd percentile over three years — with strong ELA and Algebra I results (86.7% versus 61.6% statewide), but 8th-grade math (42.0% versus 52.0%) and 8th-grade science (47.6% versus 61.2%) fall below state, and science dropped from 62.4% a year earlier. Chesapeake High School climbed to the 53rd percentile with 3 stars, with every End-of-Course subject improving year over year — Algebra I at 89.9% versus 61.6% statewide — and a 100.0% graduation rate, but chronic absenteeism is 28.8% against the district's 17.3%.

Lawrence County has no rank, test-score, graduation, absenteeism, spending or free/reduced-lunch data in this extract, so its academics cannot be compared; its student-teacher ratio of 6 is far below the others (Chesapeake High 20, Elementary 17.1, Middle 15.5). Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all four schools, so poverty context is unavailable, and spending figures exist only for the three Chesapeake Union schools and only for 2018–2019 ($7,832 elementary, $8,349 middle, $9,209 high). District-wide, Chesapeake Union ranks 219th of 773 Ohio districts, the 72nd percentile with 4 stars.