Summary:
Zip code 45896 is home to just two public schools, both part of the Waynesfield-Goshen Local district and both sharing a single PK–12 campus at 500 N Westminster St in Waynesfield. Waynesfield-Goshen Local Elementary School serves grades PK–5 with 245 students, and Waynesfield-Goshen Local High School serves grades 6–12 with 220 students. Together that is 465 students on one contiguous campus, with no gap between fifth and sixth grade — which means each school's test results are identical to the district's overall figure.
The two schools are heading in opposite directions. The high school is the standout: a 100% graduation rate, a 65th-percentile state ranking, and exceptional upper-grade results — 8th grade math at 92.6% proficient versus 52.0% statewide, 8th grade science at 93.5% versus 61.2%, and Algebra I at 91.7% versus 61.6%. It posts those numbers while reporting a 75% free/reduced-lunch rate. The elementary school still beats the state in every math grade tested, but its state ranking has fallen three years running, from the 71st percentile (4 stars) to the 60th to the 49th (2 stars) — a 22-point slide driven largely by reading.
The clearest pattern for families: math is above expectations here and English Language Arts is below them, and the gap widens as students move up. Fifth grade ELA sits at 51.5% versus 70.4% statewide, and 6th grade ELA at 31.3% versus 56.0% — the lowest figure anywhere in this data. Attendance runs the other way: the elementary school has lower chronic absenteeism (8%) than the high school (12%), even though the high school's achievement is stronger. Two caveats — the elementary school's poverty figure is not reported, and spending data dates to 2018-2019, so neither should be read as current.
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