Focus Learning Academy of Northern Columbus

The area covered here contains just one school: Focus Learning Academy of Northern Columbus, located at 1900 E Dublin Granville Rd in Columbus. It is unusual in that it is also its own district — Focus Learning Academy of Northern Columbus — a single-school local education agency with 721 students. Although labeled an elementary school, its tested grades run K–8. Because there are no other schools in this set, all comparisons below are against Ohio state averages and the school's own prior year. One practical note for parents: with roughly 80 students per tested grade, a single student can swing a grade-level result by more than a percentage point, so one-year swings should be read as signals rather than verdicts.

Academically, the school performs below Ohio averages in most grades, and the pattern is consistent across both years of data. Math is the largest gap, averaging 41.6% proficiency against a state average of 57.6% — below state in all six tested grades (3–8). ELA averages 55.1% versus 62.1% state, and Science averages 48.6% versus 62.0%. The clearest bright spot is 5th-grade ELA, at 77.1% against a state figure of 70.4% — the only grade-subject in the file that beats the state, and it rose from 62.9% the year before. 5th-grade Math also improved sharply (32.3% to 56.6%), as did 6th-grade ELA and 8th-grade Science. Third grade is the sharpest concern: ELA fell from 57.5% to 31.2% in one year, against a state figure of 63.4%, and Math dropped from 57.1% to 39.0%. Middle-grades Math, especially 6th and 7th, is the weakest band overall.

On operations, chronic absenteeism is 12.6% — the strongest figure in the data set, though no state benchmark or prior year is provided. The student–teacher ratio is comparatively high at 20.3, and per-pupil spending of $7,751 is from 2018-19, so it should not be used to describe current resources. Free and reduced lunch status is not reported, so the school's economic context cannot be assessed, and absenteeism covers only one year. The school's composite rank has improved two years running, moving from the 22nd to the 34th percentile and from 1 star to 2 stars, though the district rating shows 27th percentile with 1 star — a different comparison pool rather than a contradiction. The highest-value things to watch are third-grade literacy, the 5th-to-6th-grade transition, and middle-grades Math.