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MATH vs READING · OHIO

Ohio: where math and reading scores diverge

Ohio public schools with the widest gap between math and reading proficiency. Same students, same test, only the subject changes.

Schools in this report
40
widest divergence in state
Most reading-ahead
-52 pp
Beavercreek High School
Most math-ahead
+37 pp
Highview 6th Grade Center
OH PUBLIC SCHOOLS · WIDEST MATH-READING DIVERGENCE
SchoolCityLevelMath %Reading %Math − Reading (pp) ↑
Beavercreek High SchoolBeavercreekHigh32.0%83.5%-51.5
Fayetteville-Perry High SchoolFayettevilleHigh30.3%80.5%-50.3
Trimble High SchoolGlousterHigh7.2%54.2%-47.1
Coventry High SchoolAkronHigh23.1%69.9%-46.9
East Palestine High SchoolEast PalestineHigh25.9%66.2%-40.3
Felicity-Franklin Local High SchoolFelicityHigh14.9%54.4%-39.5
Fairland High SchoolProctorvilleHigh29.0%68.4%-39.5
Dawson-Bryant High SchoolCoal GroveHigh32.2%71.4%-39.2
Sidney High SchoolSidneyHigh22.4%61.5%-39.2
Portsmouth West High SchoolWest PortsmouthHigh34.5%73.0%-38.5
Malvern High SchoolMalvernHigh26.3%63.6%-37.3
Cardington-Lincoln High SchoolCardingtonHigh29.7%66.7%-37.1
Monroe Central High SchoolWoodsfieldHigh27.5%64.5%-37
Shenandoah High SchoolSarahsvilleHigh30.6%67.2%-36.6
Bucyrus Secondary SchoolBucyrusHigh22.9%59.3%-36.5
Columbus Alternative High SchoolColumbusHigh39.2%75.4%-36.3
Maysville High SchoolZanesvilleHigh30.2%65.9%-35.7
South Point High SchoolSouth PointHigh24.5%59.7%-35.2
Fairborn High SchoolFairbornHigh29.2%64.3%-35.1
Community STE(A)M Academy - XeniaXeniaCombined31.0%66.1%-35
Wheelersburg High SchoolWheelersburgHigh51.3%86.2%-35
East Clinton High SchoolSabinaHigh24.1%58.8%-34.7
MC^2 STEM High SchoolClevelandHigh12.9%47.5%-34.7
North High SchoolEastlakeHigh32.2%66.8%-34.6
Fairfield High SchoolFairfieldHigh31.2%65.6%-34.5
Parkway High SchoolRockfordHigh49.3%83.3%-34
River High SchoolHannibalHigh31.1%64.7%-33.6
Crooksville High SchoolCrooksvilleHigh16.6%50.0%-33.5
Norwayne High SchoolCrestonHigh57.2%90.6%-33.4
West Muskingum High SchoolZanesvilleHigh26.6%59.6%-33
Jackson High SchoolMassillonHigh52.6%85.4%-32.8
Valley View High SchoolGermantownHigh39.2%71.8%-32.6
Woodmore High SchoolElmoreHigh39.9%72.4%-32.6
Cuyahoga Falls High SchoolCuyahoga FallsHigh36.8%69.2%-32.4
Crestview High SchoolAshlandHigh40.6%72.7%-32.2
Lynchburg-Clay High SchoolLynchburgHigh39.6%71.6%-32.1
Indian Lake High SchoolLewistownHigh36.5%68.5%-32.1
Cambridge High SchoolCambridgeHigh22.8%54.6%-31.8
Eastern High SchoolWinchesterHigh52.3%83.6%-31.3
Highview 6th Grade CenterMiddletownMiddle65.7%29.1%36.6
40 of 40 rows · Brick-and-mortar only; virtual schools and specialized-population schools excluded. Most recent year with both a math and a reading all-students result; schools must have 150+ students and at least 5% proficient in each subject (a floor that drops suppression/coding artifacts). A negative gap means students are more often proficient in reading than math.↓ Download math-reading-gap-by-state-oh.csv

How to read this list

Each school is scored on its most recent year carrying both a math and a reading (English Language Arts) all-students proficiency figure on Ohio's native assessment. The final column is the difference: math proficiency minus reading proficiency, in percentage points. A negative number means a school's students are more often proficient in reading than in math; a positive number means the reverse. Because both figures come from the same students taking the same test under the same cut-score policy, the gap is an apples-to-apples comparison in a way that raw cross-state proficiency rates are not.

A wide gap is not automatically a problem. Arts, language-immersion, and humanities-focused programs often post strong reading and weaker math; STEM and career-technical programs often do the reverse. But a persistent, schoolwide divergence is worth a parent's attention, because it can also flag a staffing gap, a curriculum weakness, or a math-anxiety culture that a single year of scores would hide.

What is excluded

Brick-and-mortar schools only: virtual academies and cyber charters are removed because their results are noisy and rarely reflect a school families choose geographically. Specialized-population schools (state schools for the deaf or blind, therapeutic and juvenile-justice placements, and NCES special-education or alternative-education campuses) are also excluded, because state proficiency rates are not a comparable metric for them. Schools must have at least 150 students and at least 5% proficient in each subject, a floor that drops suppression and coding artifacts.

Source data

Ohio state assessment results loaded into allk12, joined to the NCES Common Core of Data school directory. Refreshed when the state publishes a new assessment file. See the national report for the state-by-state summary.

HOW TO CITE THIS REPORT

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allk12 (2026). "Ohio: the math vs reading proficiency gap by school." Retrieved from https://allk12.com/reports/math-reading-gap/ohio
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DOWNLOAD THE DATA
↓ math-reading-gap-by-state-oh.csv
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