By 1808Delaware
Delaware City Schools has moved from four stars to 4.5 on Ohio’s latest school report card, placing the district in the state’s “exceeds standards” range. The rating, released September 15, summarizes six areas of performance rather than producing a simple average of test scores. It reflects results reported for the 2025-2026 school year, although some measures, including graduation, draw on specific student cohorts.
The district’s overall rating improved by half a star from the previous year. View Delaware City Schools’ official report card.
Growth And Graduation Lead
Delaware received five stars in Progress, which measures how much academic growth students made compared with expectations based on their previous performance. The district also earned five stars in Graduation. Its four-year graduation rate was 96.8 percent.
Achievement and Gap Closing each received four stars. Achievement focuses on performance on state tests, while Gap Closing looks at differences among student groups and also considers factors including chronic absenteeism and gifted-student performance.
The district’s ratings for Graduation and College, Career, Workforce and Military Readiness each rose by one star from the 2024-2025 report card. The readiness measure now stands at three stars.
A Clearer Picture Of The Work Ahead
Early Literacy also received three stars, the state’s “meets standards” level. That component examines reading improvement and proficiency from kindergarten through third grade.
Chronic absenteeism remains another number to watch. Delaware’s rate was 18.4 percent, above Ohio’s 2025-2026 goal of 14.5 percent or lower. The state considers a student chronically absent after missing at least 10 percent of the school year for any reason.
Those figures keep the overall improvement in perspective. A 4.5-star rating describes the district as a whole, but it does not mean every component or school received the same mark.
Different Results Across Seven Schools
Ervin Carlisle Elementary School and Rutherford B. Hayes High School posted the district’s highest individual ratings at 4.5 stars. James Conger Elementary School received three stars, the lowest overall rating among the district’s buildings. The spread gives families and educators a more useful starting point than the districtwide number alone. The report card identifies strong growth and graduation results while pointing toward early literacy, readiness, and attendance as areas where additional gains remain possible.
The full state portal allows readers to move from the overall rating into individual components and school results. A September 23 local report also examines the district’s latest performance. For Delaware City Schools, the newest card contains two messages at once: the overall trend moved upward, and the detailed measures still show where the next half star could come from
