Summary:
This area of Springfield, Ohio is served by a single school — Springfield Preparatory and Fitness Academy — an elementary-classified school that actually serves grades K–8 with 158 students, located at 1615 Selma Rd and operating within the Springfield Preparatory and Fitness Academy district of the same name. The area contains 1 elementary school and no middle, high, or alternative schools, so families here have one K–8 option within this data set rather than a set of schools to compare against each other.
Overall, the school ranks in the bottom quartile: 1,167 of 1,560 schools statewide (25th percentile, 1 star) in 2025–2026, with similar results the two prior years and 22nd percentile at the district level. Across the 14 reported state tests, the school averaged about 42.4% proficient versus a state average of about 60.1%. Some grade levels beat the state clearly — 8th grade math at 66.7% vs. 52.0%, 3rd grade ELA at 76.9% vs. 63.4%, and 8th grade science at 66.7% vs. 61.2%. Others lag badly, especially 7th grade ELA at 7.7% vs. 62.7%, 3rd grade math at 23.1% vs. 62.1%, 4th grade math at 33.3% vs. 67.3%, and 6th grade math at 23.5% vs. 56.2%. Results swing widely from year to year, which is common in small schools where one or two students can shift a percentage substantially.
Chronic absenteeism stands at 47.5% for 2025–2026, meaning nearly half of students missed enough school to be chronically absent — a significant barrier to learning. The student-teacher ratio of 7.1 in 2024–2025 is a relative strength, and per-student spending was $10,979 (2018–2019). Free/reduced lunch data is not reported, so economic context is unavailable. In short: a small K–8 school with real bright spots in 8th grade math and science and 3rd grade ELA, but bottom-quartile rankings overall and serious middle-grade ELA and math gaps.
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