Summary:
ZIP code 45873 contains just one public school in this data set — Oakwood Elementary School, part of the Paulding Exempted Village district, serving grades PK–6 with 291 students; there is no middle school, high school, or alternative school in the ZIP, so this is the only school families here will find listed.
Oakwood Elementary is a standout by nearly every measure. It has earned 5 stars for three consecutive listed years, moving from the 91st percentile in 2023–2024 to the 95th percentile in 2025–2026, where it ranked 71st out of 1,560 schools — roughly the top 5% in the state. For comparison, its own district ranks 305th out of 773, at the 61st percentile with 3 stars. In 2025–2026, every listed Ohio State Test proficiency rate at Oakwood was above both the district and the state, including 100% in 5th grade Science, 100% in 3rd grade ELA, and 97% in 4th grade Mathematics. The simple average across the nine listed tests was 89.8 for the school, 71.1 for the district, and 62.1 for the state, and the school's average improved about 3.8 points year over year.
Other metrics add context: chronic absenteeism was 6.0%, below the district's 7.0%, and 56.01% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, so the school serves a majority economically disadvantaged population while producing high results. The student-teacher ratio is 14.5, and per-student spending was $10,511 in 2018–2019, the most recent figure in this data. Two areas to watch: 5th grade ELA slipped from 87.1 to 78.1 (still above district 75.8 and state 70.4), and 3rd grade Mathematics dipped from 94.3 to 87.5. Notably, 6th grade Math went from being the school's only below-district score (64.3 vs. 72.0) to 88.9, well above both district and state.
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