Summit Academy Community School for Alternative Learn-Canton

Schools in the Summit Academy Community School for Alternative Learn-Canton area include just one school: Summit Academy Community School for Alternative Learn-Canton, located at 1620 Market Ave S, Canton, OH 44707-3778. It is a small elementary school serving grades K–8 with 138 students. The area summary counts it as one elementary school and zero middle, high, or alternative schools, even though its name includes "Alternative Learn." Because there is only one school here, there are no peer schools to compare against, so results are best read against state averages and the school's own past performance. The free/reduced-lunch figure is blank, so it should be treated as unknown rather than as zero.

Academically, the school is performing well below state averages. Every one of the 28 reported school proficiency rates across 2024–25 and 2025–26 fell short of the state average. Averaged across all reported tests, proficiency was 26.2% in 2025–26 versus a state average of 60.1%, and 21.7% in 2024–25 versus 59.2%. Mathematics is the biggest weakness, averaging 21.1% in 2025–26 against a state average of 57.6%, and just 11.9% in 2024–25. The brightest spot is 5th grade in 2025–26, where ELA reached 56.3%, math 43.8%, and science 37.5% — the school's strongest results, with math up 31.3 percentage points and ELA up 18.8 points from the prior year. Even so, those remained below state. Several grades are very weak, including 7th grade math at 0% in 2025–26, and 6th grade math and ELA at 0% in 2024–25.

Chronic absenteeism was 54.1% in 2025–26, meaning more than half of students were chronically absent — a serious barrier to learning. The school's rank history places it in the bottom 11–15th percentile across the three years shown, with 1 star each year, while the district rank is 722nd of 773 with 0 stars. Parents should also note that results swing widely from year to year, which is typical for small schools where a few students can shift a percentage by several points. The student/teacher ratio is 13.1, and per-student spending is listed at $8,237 but dates to 2018–19, so it is too old to compare meaningfully with current test scores and attendance.