Summary:
There is just one school in this area: Westside Academy, a K–8 building at 4330 Clime Rd North in Columbus, Ohio, serving 339 students and operating as its own district (Westside Academy). Because enrollment is spread across nine grade levels, each tested group is small — often around 26 students — so a single child moving between "not proficient" and "proficient" can shift a result by several points, and large swings between years are not always meaningful. The school's most recent rating is 1 star, at the 29th percentile (ranked 1,106 of 1,560), down from 2 stars in 2023–24.
The clearest bright spot is math. Every grade level improved, and grades 7 (50% proficient vs. the state's 48.6%) and 8 (53.8% vs. 52%) now sit above Ohio averages, with 8th-grade math gaining 37.1 points in a single year. Fifth-grade English language arts is essentially at state level (69.2% vs. 70.4%). Across all grades, the average math shortfall against the state shrank from 27.3 points to 12.7 points — the school cut its math gap by more than half in one year, while state averages in the upper grades were rising.
Grades 3 through 6 remain well below state in both subjects: 5th-grade math at 33.3% vs. 59.1%, 4th-grade math at 43.8% vs. 67.3%, and 4th-grade ELA at 43.8% vs. 61.8%. Eighth-grade science dropped sharply, from 72.2% to 38.5%, against a nearly unchanged state benchmark. Chronic absenteeism stands at 17%, roughly one in six students missing 10% or more of school days, and the student-teacher ratio is 22.2 to 1. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, so the school's poverty context is unknown. Notably, proficiency rose while the star rating stayed flat.
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