Best Public Schools in Zip Code 45877

ZIP code 45877 in Ohio is home to three public schools, all within the Pandora-Gilboa Local district, serving students from kindergarten through 12th grade. Pandora-Gilboa Elementary School serves grades K–4 with 182 students, Pandora-Gilboa Middle School serves grades 5–8 with 158 students, and Pandora-Gilboa High School serves grades 9–12 with 183 students — 523 students in total. At the district level, Pandora-Gilboa Local ranks 146 of 773 Ohio districts, placing it in the 81st percentile with 4 stars.

The middle school is the current standout, earning 5 stars and a 91st percentile rank (99 of 1,046 middle schools) in 2025–2026, up from 4 stars in each of the two prior years. All ten of its reported tests beat state averages, including 7th grade mathematics at 91.2% versus 48.6% statewide. Pandora-Gilboa High School is stable at 4 stars and the 81st percentile, with a 100.0% graduation rate and all six End-of-Course tests above state averages; Geometry has the narrowest margin, at +7.9 points. The elementary school still exceeds state averages on every reported test, but its rank fell from 81st percentile and 4 stars in 2024–2025 to 63rd percentile and 3 stars in 2025–2026, with its average margin over the state dropping from roughly +18.7 to +8.6 points.

Chronic absenteeism varies by school: 8.2% at the middle school, 10.2% at the elementary, and 13.3% at the high school, which sits above the district rate of 10.6%. Notably, the middle school has the highest student-teacher ratio (22.5) and the lowest reported per-pupil spending ($10,430, from 2018–2019), yet the strongest relative outcomes — a pattern worth noting, though it does not prove cause. Free/reduced-lunch data is reported only for the high school, at 98.36%; the elementary and middle school figures are not reported rather than zero. With fewer than 200 students per school, year-to-year swings are common.