Summary:
Zip code 45646 covers Latham, Ohio, where three public schools — Western High School (grades 7–12), Western Primary (PK–2), and Western Elementary School (3–6) — serve roughly 685 students in the Western Local district. All three share one campus address on State Route 124, and there is no separate middle school, so grades 7 and 8 attend the high school. The district as a whole ranks 599 of 773 in Ohio, at the 23rd percentile with 1 star.
Across the three schools, results are mixed. Western High School posts the strongest single number in the data — a 98.3% graduation rate — but also the highest chronic absenteeism at 32.6%, above Western Primary at 28.1%, Western Elementary School at 26.9%, and the district's 29.5%. Its test scores split sharply: 8th Grade Science (74.1 vs state 61.2), 8th Grade Mathematics (64.8 vs 52.0) and American Government (75.0 vs 71.6) were above state, while Algebra I (17.4 vs 61.6), Geometry (13.5 vs 43.3) and 7th Grade ELA (35.2 vs 62.7) were far below. Both ranked schools fell from 2 stars in 2023–2024 to 1 star in each year since.
Western Elementary School has the lowest absenteeism and some year-over-year gains — 6th Grade Mathematics rose from 20.0 to 35.3 and 6th Grade ELA from 28.3 to 42.3 — yet every reported 2025–2026 test was below the state average, including 5th Grade Mathematics at 30.6 vs 59.1. Western Primary has the highest student-teacher ratio at 31.6, nearly double Western High School's 17.4, along with the highest per-student spending at $11,716, though that figure is from 2018–2019. Free/reduced lunch data is blank for all schools, and 3rd grade testing moved from Western Primary in 2024–2025 to Western Elementary School in 2025–2026.
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