Summary:
Bennett Venture Academy is the only school in this data set: a single public school in Toledo, Ohio (43612) that is classified as an Elementary school but actually serves grades K–8, with about 460 students enrolled. Because it is the only school in the Bennett Venture Academy district, there are no peer schools to compare it against here; all comparisons are to Ohio statewide averages or to the school's own prior-year results. The school earns 1 star, ranks around the 20th percentile statewide (1,253 of 1,560 schools in 2025–2026), and its district ranks 639 of 773, the 17th percentile. It has stayed in the bottom fifth of Ohio schools for three straight years.
There are real bright spots. In 2025–2026, 7th grade math was essentially at the state average — 48.1% proficient versus 48.6% statewide — and 7th grade ELA (55.6% vs. 62.7%) and 5th grade ELA (60.7% vs. 70.4%) were the next closest. Mathematics improved markedly from 2024–2025, including 7th grade math (21.6% to 48.1%, up 26.5 points), 5th grade math (19.1% to 42.9%, up 23.8 points), and 3rd grade math (20.0% to 34.2%, up 14.2 points). Overall, the school's simple subject average rose about 3.8 points while the state rose about 0.9, narrowing the gap.
Challenges remain substantial. Every reported grade-level test in 2025–2026 was below the state average. The largest gap was 3rd grade ELA, at 25.0% proficient versus 63.4% statewide — a 38.4-point difference that also declined year over year. Sixth grade was weak in both math and ELA, each at 24.1%, with ELA dropping 12.5 points. Eighth grade science fell from 53.1% to 43.3%. Chronic absenteeism was 61.1%, meaning more than three in five students were chronically absent. One structural positive is a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 9.1; the per-student spending figure, $7,583, is from 2018–2019 and is not current.
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