Summary:
ZIP code 45710 in Albany, Ohio is served by two schools, both part of the Alexander Local district: Alexander Elementary School, serving grades PK–5 with 669 students, and Alexander Junior / Senior High School, serving grades 6–12 with 693 students. Together they enroll 1,362 students, and there is no separate middle school or alternative school in the area. The district ranks 342 of 773 in Ohio, at the 56th percentile with 3 stars.
Alexander Junior / Senior High School is the stronger academic performer, ranking 312 of 795 high schools (61st percentile) with 3 stars each year and percentiles in the low 60s. Its graduation rate is 98.1%, and it scored above the state on 9 of 13 tests in 2025–2026, with large gains in Biology (81.4% vs. 67.0%), 8th-grade Math (65.9% vs. 52.0%), English II (74.3% vs. 62.7%) and Geometry (54.0% vs. 43.3%). Middle-grade English is the weak spot (6th-grade ELA 51.0% vs. 56.0% state; 7th-grade 58.7% vs. 62.7%), and chronic absenteeism is high at 25.9%, above the district's 22.1%.
Alexander Elementary School has better attendance — 18.0% chronic absenteeism, below the district rate — and is improving in rank, moving from 47th percentile with 2 stars to 52nd percentile with 3 stars. Its academics are more mixed: above state in 3rd-grade ELA (71.0% vs. 63.4%) but below in 4th-grade ELA (55.6% vs. 61.8%), 5th-grade Science and 3rd-grade Math. A reported 6th-grade Math score of 100% falls outside the school's PK–5 grade span and should be treated as a reporting anomaly. Both schools have unknown free/reduced lunch data, and the high school shows a lower student-teacher ratio (13.2 vs. 15.2) and higher per-student spending ($9,745 vs. $8,892 in 2018–2019).
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