Summary:
Horizon Science Academy Youngstown is the only school in the Horizon Science Academy Youngstown district, a single K–8 building on Southern Blvd. in Youngstown, Ohio, serving 439 students and classified as an Elementary school even though it tests students through 8th grade. Because this list contains just one school, the comparisons below are against Ohio state averages and the school's own prior-year results, not against other local schools.
The clearest strength is English Language Arts. In 2025–2026 the school's unweighted ELA average across grades 3–8 was about 65.1% versus Ohio's 62.1%, with 7th grade at 73.7% (state 62.7%), 5th grade at 76.7% (state 70.4%), and 3rd grade at 70.9% (state 63.4%). Eighth grade is a bright spot across the board: Science 70.4% vs. 61.2%, Mathematics 55.6% vs. 52.0%, and ELA 66.7% vs. 58.3%. The school is also trending upward — its overall simple test average rose from about 51.5% to 57.8% year over year, while the state moved only from about 59.2 to 60.1, and its state rank improved from 1,051st of 1,577 schools in 2023–2024 to 950th of 1,560 in 2025–2026, moving from the 33rd to the 39th percentile.
Weaknesses remain. Fourth grade is the most urgent concern: both Mathematics and ELA came in at 40.7%, far below state averages of 67.3% and 61.8%, and 4th grade ELA fell 22.1 points from the prior year. Fifth grade Science, at 39.5% against a state figure of 62.7%, is also far behind. Mathematics overall (51.4% vs. state 57.6%) and Science overall (55.0% vs. 62.0%) trail the state, and the school still holds a 2-star rating and a district summary rank of 415th of 773. Chronic absenteeism stands at 40.0% for 2025–2026, a substantial share of students that likely makes academic growth harder. Note also that free/reduced lunch is not reported here and per-student spending ($7,995) dates to 2018–2019.
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