Constellation Schools: Westside Community School of the Arts

Constellation Schools: Westside Community School of the Arts is the only school in this area — a single K–8 elementary charter school with 164 students on Bosworth Road in Cleveland, Ohio, which also serves as its own district, Constellation Schools: Westside Community School of the Arts, meaning there is no second school to compare it against.

Academically, the school ranks 653 of 773 Ohio districts (16th percentile) and has held a 1-star rating for three consecutive years (2023–24 through 2025–26). In 2025–26 it performed below the state in 12 of 14 tested subject-grade combinations, was essentially level in one, and above the state in one: 6th grade English Language Arts at 61.1% proficient versus a state figure of 56%. English Language Arts is consistently the stronger subject, averaging roughly 44.4% proficient against about 24.8% in Math. The weakest results are 5th grade Math at 3.8% (state: 59.1%) and grade 8, where Math (15.8%), ELA (21.1%) and Science (22.2%) all trail the state by wide margins. Even so, 2025–26 brought real improvement: ELA averages rose about 14.5 points and Math about 7.4 points over 2024–25, and the school posted its first above-state result.

Two caveats matter for parents reading these numbers. First, chronic absenteeism stands at 56% in 2025–26 — more than half of students — the clearest non-academic headwind in the data. Second, the school's test groups are very small, roughly 15–27 students per grade, so a single student is worth 4–6 percentage points and year-to-year swings should be read cautiously. Note also that the only spending figure available is $7,683 per student from 2018–19, and the free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported. In short: three years of bottom-quintile, 1-star results, with growing momentum in ELA and modest gains in Math off a very low base.