iSTEM

The iSTEM district in Painesville, Ohio, contains just one school — iSTEM, a combined middle-and-high school serving grades 6 through 12 on Mentor Avenue. Enrollment is 177 students, roughly 25 per grade, with 17.7 students per teacher. Because the district and the school are the same entity, the district's 5-star, 91st-percentile summary effectively describes the building itself.

Achievement here is genuinely strong rather than strong by default: every one of the 17 reported test results beats the Ohio state average for the same subject, grade, and year. Biology is the flagship, at 92.9% in 2025-2026 and 93.1% in 2024-2025, against state averages of 67.0% and 65.4%. English and social studies are also bright spots — 6th-grade ELA at 81.0%, English II at 83.3%, and American Government, which jumped from 78.4% to 92.9% as the state average slipped slightly. Mathematics is the relative weak point: Algebra I (68.4%), Geometry (52.0%) and 8th-grade math (53.8%) all still beat the state, but by the thinnest margins in the file, and 8th grade dips in both reading (69.2%) and math (53.8%).

Context matters. The graduation rate is 93.5% alongside 20.3% chronic absenteeism — roughly one in five students flagged. Free/reduced lunch is not reported, so poverty context is unknown, and the only spending figure, $5,084, dates to 2018-2019. The 2025-2026 picture is incomplete, with four End-of-Course results only, and year-by-year rankings have swung from the 94th to the 80th to the 88th percentile — typical of a school this small, where a few students can move every percentage.