Summary:
Zip code 45653 is served by a single public high school, Minford High School, which enrolls 295 students in grades 9–12 and belongs to the Minford Local district in southern Ohio. Since it is the only high school in the area, there is no neighboring school to compare it with; the most useful benchmarks are the district, the state, and the school's own prior-year results.
Academically, the picture is mixed. Minford High beat the state in American Government (77.2% proficient versus 71.6%) and Geometry (47.2% versus 43.3%) in 2025–2026, and it posted the largest single improvement in the data in Algebra I, climbing from 30.0% to 57.8% proficient in one year — still just under the state's 61.6%. Biology, English II, and American History, however, all fell below state proficiency levels, and Integrated Math II stands out sharply at 2.6% proficient against 35.3% statewide, a gap parents may want to ask the school about, since the number of students tested in that subject is not reported.
Two other figures matter most for families. The graduation rate is strong at 95.0%, matching the district rate exactly. But chronic absenteeism is high at 35.5% — more than one in three students — compared with 22.9% across the district, and the school's state ranking has slipped from 51st percentile with 3 stars in 2023–2024 to 37th percentile with 2 stars in 2024–2025 and 30th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026. Keep in mind that free and reduced-price lunch data is blank and should be treated as unknown, and the per-student spending figure of $8,408 comes from 2018–2019, so it may not reflect current resources.
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