Summary:
ZIP 45860 covers Maria Stein, a small rural community in Mercer County, Ohio, and is served by exactly two schools — Marion Local Elementary School (K–8, 710 students) and Marion Local High School (9–12, 306 students) — both part of the Marion Local district, with 1,016 students combined and no middle or alternative school in the ZIP.
These are among the highest-performing schools in Ohio. Marion Local High School ranks #2 of 795 Ohio high schools with a 100% graduation rate and 98.1% average proficiency across its tested End-of-Course subjects, versus a 63.2% state average — a 34.8-point lead. Marion Local Elementary School ranks #32 of 1,560 schools, averaging 93.5% proficiency across 14 tested subjects against a 60.1% state average, a 33.4-point lead. Marion Local is ranked #1 of 773 districts in the state, and every school at every level holds a 5-star rating in each year reported.
Comparing the two campuses, math and science are the clear strengths: the high school posts 98.2% in Geometry against a 43.3% state rate — a 54.9-point gap, the largest in the data — while eighth graders at the elementary sit the Algebra I End-of-Course exam and scored 100%. The elementary's softer spot is early-grade English Language Arts, with Grade 3 at 86.4% and Grade 4 at 86.1%, still far above state but the lowest results in the data set. Chronic absenteeism is 0.8% at the elementary versus 3.8% at the high school, and class sizes run 17.1 versus 20.4 students per teacher, even though per-pupil spending is nearly identical. Both schools serve a low-poverty population, which is useful context for the outsized results.
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