The Brilliance School

The data set for this area contains a single school: The Brilliance School, an elementary school in Garfield Heights, Ohio, serving grades K–8 with 259 students. Because it is the only school in the file, there are no peer schools to compare it against directly — the only benchmarks available are Ohio state averages and the school's own past results. The The Brilliance School district listing shows 1 elementary, 0 middle, 0 high, and 0 alternative schools. The school ranks 688th of 773 Ohio districts — the 11th percentile, with 1 star — and reports a student-teacher ratio of 15.2:1 for 2024-25. Chronic absenteeism stands at 61.4% in 2025-26, meaning roughly three in five students. Per-student spending is listed at $7,339, but that figure is from 2018-19 and is too old to reflect current resources, and the free/reduced-lunch percentage is not available in this file.

On 2025-26 Ohio State Tests, the school's relative bright spots are in English language arts. Third grade ELA reached 61.5% proficient against a state average of 63.4% — a gap of only 1.9 percentage points — and 8th grade ELA reached 50.0% versus 58.3% statewide. Math is the most severe weakness: grades 3, 6, and 7 each reported 0% proficient. The school's math average is 11.6% versus a state average of 57.2%, and 8th grade science came in at 21.4% against 61.2% statewide. The school's ELA average of 42.4% is far above its math average, an internal gap of about 30.8 points, while the state's own ELA-versus-math gap is only around 3 points.

The school is improving but remains near the bottom. Its rank moved from the 4th percentile in 2023-24 to 11th in 2024-25 and 13th in 2025-26, and it earned 0 stars before moving to 1 star in the last two years. Comparing the grades tested in both years, ELA gained 16.3 points and 8th grade science gained 15.1 points, while math declined 7.5 points. These year-over-year changes involve different cohorts of students, so they do not necessarily show the same children improving. No 2025-26 grade 5 test data is reported, and no test-score values are listed as suppressed.