Schools in Zip Code 45648

Zip code 45648 (Lucasville, Ohio) is served by four schools — one elementary (PK–4), one middle (5–8), and two high schools (7–12/9–12) — three of which belong to Valley Local and one to Scioto County Joint Vocational School, with total enrollment of 1,572 students.

Valley Middle School has the strongest academics, ranking 63rd percentile with 3 stars and scoring above the state in 7 of 10 subjects, including 8th grade math at 70.4% proficient versus the state's 52.0%. Valley High School improved from 46th percentile (2 stars) to 55th percentile (3 stars) and graduates 98.7% of students, yet Geometry is a serious weak spot — only 23.2% proficient versus 43.3% statewide, the largest negative gap in the data. Valley Elementary School is the concern, sliding from 72nd percentile (4 stars) to 49th percentile (2 stars).

For context, Scioto County Career Technical Center is the largest school (549 students) with the lowest student-teacher ratio (11.6), but has no reported test, graduation, or absenteeism data, so it cannot be compared academically. Among the Valley Local schools, free/reduced lunch ranges from 42.72% to 55.2%, and chronic absenteeism from 14.2% to 18.0% — notably the school with the highest poverty rate has the lowest absenteeism. Student-teacher ratios run from 21.0 at the elementary to 13.2 at the high school. Valley Local sits at 54th percentile district-wide (3 stars), but that single figure hides opposite trends: the high school is rising while the elementary is falling.