Summary:
ZIP code 45653 serves Minford, Ohio, where three schools in the Minford Local district cover prekindergarten through 12th grade: Minford Primary Elementary School (PK–3, 405 students), Minford Middle School (4–8, 443 students), and Minford High School (9–12, 295 students). Together they enroll 1,143 students, with the middle school the largest and the high school the smallest.
The middle school is the academic bright spot, rising from the 52nd–53rd percentile to the 61st percentile with 3 stars and outperforming the state in 7 of 12 reported test areas — including 8th grade math at 69.4% versus the state's 52.0%. Its chronic absenteeism of 20.8% is below the district's 22.9%. Minford Primary has the best attendance in the ZIP code at 15.3%, but its 2025–2026 third-grade results fell below the state in both math (52.5% vs. 62.1%) and ELA (58.8% vs. 63.4%), a reversal from 2024–2025 when both were above state. The high school posts a strong 95.0% graduation rate but the highest chronic absenteeism at 35.5% and the weakest test profile, including Integrated Math II at 2.6% versus the state's 35.3%; Algebra I improved sharply to 57.8% but remains below the state average.
Minford Local ranks 455 of 773 Ohio districts (41st percentile, 2 stars), a figure that masks wide internal differences between a 3-star middle school and a 2-star, 30th-percentile high school. Per-student spending from 2018–2019 ranges narrowly from $8,210 to $8,514, and the primary school has the highest student-teacher ratio (20.2) while the middle school has the lowest (15.2). Free/reduced-lunch percentages are not reported for any school here, so they are unknown rather than zero. Attendance and achievement track together in this ZIP code — the lowest-absenteeism school previously scored above state, the highest-absenteeism school scores lowest — though that pattern alone does not prove cause and effect.
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