Bella Academy of Excellence

Bella Academy of Excellence is the only school in this data set — a single elementary school serving grades K–7 with 155 students in Cleveland, Ohio, operating as its own district (Bella Academy of Excellence) and ranked 739th of 773 Ohio districts, at the 4th percentile with 0 stars.

In 2025–26, the school did not match or exceed the state average on any reported test. The smallest gap was 3rd grade English Language Arts at 15.6 percentage points below state; the largest was 5th grade Science at 55.6 points below. The one clear bright spot is 3rd grade Mathematics in 2024–25, at 92.9% proficient versus a state average of 64.4% — 28.5 points above — but that same test fell to 39.1% in 2025–26. Science is a persistent severe weakness: 5th grade Science was 5.6% in 2024–25 and 7.1% in 2025–26, against state averages of 63.4% and 62.7%, a gap of roughly 56–58 percentage points both years. Fifth and 6th grades in 2025–26 are especially low, with 5th grade Science and Mathematics both at 7.1 and ELA at 21.4, and 6th grade Mathematics and ELA each at 10. ELA did improve in 4th grade (22.2 to 36.4) and 5th grade (11.1 to 21.4), though both remain below state.

Other context: chronic absenteeism in 2025–26 is 28.9%, meaning more than one in four students were chronically absent. The student-teacher ratio was 22.1 students per teacher in 2024–25, and the only spending figure available is $7,364 per student in 2018–19. Free/reduced lunch data is not reported, so economic context is unknown. School rank moved from 1269 of 1577 (1 star) in 2023–24 to 1184 of 1558 (1 star) in 2024–25, then fell to 1424 of 1560 (0 stars) in 2025–26. Testing covers only grades 3–6, and with just 155 students overall, year-to-year percentage swings may reflect very small grade-level groups.