Summary:
ZIP code 45690 is home to a single public high school, Waverly High School, which serves grades 9–12 with 435 students as part of the Waverly City district. Because there are no other high schools in the area, the useful comparisons are against district figures, state averages, and the school's own prior-year results.
The school's strongest signal is completion: its 2025–2026 graduation rate is 97.1%, matching the district rate. However, test performance lags well behind the state. Across the six Ohio State Tests End-of-Course subjects, proficiency averages about 49.1% versus a state average of about 63.2%. American History is the relative bright spot at 66.2%, just 7.0 points below the state, followed by American Government at 60.7%, 10.9 points below state. The sharpest weaknesses are Algebra I at 36.8%, 24.8 points below state, Biology at 45.5%, 21.5 points below, and Geometry at 30.4%, 12.9 points below. Year over year, Biology improved 6.6 points and American History 4.3 points, while American Government fell 7.2 points and English II dropped 3.4 points. Waverly High School has been rated 1 star for three straight years and ranked 650th of 795 schools in 2025–2026, the 18th percentile — its lowest of the three years shown. The district ranked 586th of 773, the 24th percentile. Chronic absenteeism is 26.4%, 4.5 percentage points above the district's 21.9%, meaning more than one in four students is chronically absent. Other context: a 15:1 student-teacher ratio, $8,220 per-student spending from 2018–2019, and a blank free/reduced lunch rate, so that figure is unknown rather than zero.
In short, families can expect strong graduation outcomes at Waverly High School alongside test proficiency that is mostly below the state average, a bottom-quartile statewide ranking, and elevated absenteeism. The 2024–2025 and 2025–2026 proficiency tables above, along with the rank history, provide the full detail behind each figure.
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