Schools · Yellow Springs

Yellow Springs, OH schools

Yellow Springs’s public schools score well above Ohio’s averages: 71% of students are proficient in reading against 57.2% statewide, and 92% of high schoolers graduate on time against 85.3%. Kids attend Mills Lawn Elementary School through grade 6, then Yellow Springs/McKinney High School.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

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Yellow Springs’s School Grade: B+

The public schools Yellow Springs’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 70% of Ohio’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.

B+Test scoresB-Graduation
Ohio school districts we grade (897)Better than 70%
Lower resultsHigher results
Ohio towns with similar household incomes (1,288)Better than 55%
Good confidence. Built on 387 tested students and a graduating class of 64; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
  • Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Ohio’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
  • The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
  • Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Ohio only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
  • Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Ohio with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
  • What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path

Where Yellow Springs kids go to school

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Well above the state in reading

Reading (grades K–12, Yellow Springs Exempted Village)71%
State average 57.2%
Math (grades K–12, Yellow Springs Exempted Village)53%
State average 49.7%
Graduation · class of 2020

92% graduate on time

Graduation rate
92%
OH: 85.3%
Graduating class
64
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #336 of 895 OH towns →

Districts

The district serving Yellow Springs

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Colleges

Yellow Springs is home to 2 colleges

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