Constellation Schools: Puritas Community Middle

Constellation Schools: Puritas Community Middle is the only school in this data set — a small middle school in Cleveland, Ohio serving grades 5–8 with 97 students. Because there are no peer schools to compare it with, the information below compares the school against Ohio state averages, its own prior-year results, and its rank history. The Constellation Schools: Puritas Community Middle district summary places it at rank 654 of 773, the 15th percentile, with 1 star.

Academically, mathematics is the clearest and most consistent weakness. In 2025–2026, every tested math grade was more than 40 percentage points below the state average, with proficiency ranging from 4.2% in 7th grade to 15.8% in 5th grade. English language arts is comparatively stronger but uneven: 7th grade ELA reached 58.3% proficient in 2025–2026, only 4.4 points below the state average, and 6th grade ELA was 52.9% in 2024–2025, just 1.6 points below. Other ELA grades lagged much further, including 5th grade ELA at 30.4 points below the state. Science swung widely — 8th grade science was only 3.9 points below the state in 2024–2025 but fell to 38.9% the next year. Averaging across grade-level tests, overall proficiency slipped from roughly 33.8% to 27.8% between the two years while state averages rose slightly.

Chronic absenteeism is a major concern: 53.3% of students were chronically absent in 2025–2026, meaning more than half. The school also declined in rank and star rating, moving from 727th of 1,036 with 2 stars in 2024–2025 to 812th of 1,046 with 1 star in 2025–2026. With only 97 students, grade-level counts are small, so a few students can shift rates by several points and single-grade swings should be read cautiously. Some context is missing: free/reduced lunch is not reported, and per-student spending of $5,776 dates to 2018–2019. The student-teacher ratio is 19.4.