Akron Preparatory School

Akron Preparatory School is a single K–8 building of 359 students in Akron, Ohio, and it doubles as its own one-school district, Akron Preparatory School, so there is no second campus or neighboring school in this data set to compare it against — everything below is a profile of that one building measured against statewide averages.

Academically, this school sits in the bottom decile of Ohio. The district is ranked 723rd of 773 with 0 stars, while the school's own rank history shows 1 star in each of the last three years and a percentile that has slid from 20 to 14 to 13. Every one of the 42 school-versus-state comparisons in the file is negative, with shortfalls generally running about 30 to 40 points. Math is the weakest area, averaging roughly 20 percent proficient against a state average near 57 percent, and it declines sharply by grade — from 43.3 percent in grade 3 down to 5.3 percent in grade 8 in 2025-2026. ELA is the relative strength at about 30 percent and the only subject improving year over year, though it drops hard after grade 3, falling from 50.0 percent in grade 3 to 17.8 percent in grade 4. Science is stable, and 8th grade science actually rose from 18.8 percent to 23.7 percent even as 8th grade math sat at 5.3 percent.

The clearest bright spot is grade 3, where the school comes closest to state norms — the smallest gap anywhere in the file is math in 2024-2025 at 9.1 points below the state. The biggest operational concern is chronic absenteeism at 63.1 percent, meaning roughly six in ten students miss enough school to be classified chronically absent. Other limits: free/reduced-lunch data is blank, spending figures date to 2018-2019, and only one year of attendance data exists, so those gaps cannot be measured. Parents should read the low ranking alongside the genuine early-grade strengths, and note that the district and school star ratings disagree in severity despite describing the same students.