Summary:
Berea City is a five-school Ohio district serving 5,331 students, with three PK–4 elementaries — Brook Park Elementary School, Grindstone Elementary School and Big Creek Elementary School — feeding a grades 5–8 Berea-Midpark Middle School and a grades 9–12 Berea-Midpark High School. District-wide, Berea City ranks 306th of 773 Ohio districts — about the 60th percentile, with 3 stars. At 5,331 students the district is mid-sized, but its middle school (1,522) is nearly as large as its high school (1,694), and its three elementaries range widely in size, from 555 to 919 students.
The elementary tier is where the district shines. Grindstone holds 4 stars in all three years, ranked in the 77th, 84th and 77th percentiles, and beats the state in every tested elementary subject — its 2024–2025 4th-grade math score of 93.4% is the highest figure in the data set. Big Creek also holds 4 stars and beats the state in all four subjects. Brook Park is the district's biggest mover, climbing from 42nd–43rd percentile (2 stars) to 53rd percentile (3 stars), though it is the only district school below the state in an elementary subject (4th-grade ELA). At the secondary level, Berea-Midpark High posts a 98.4% graduation rate and beats the state in five of six End-of-Course subjects, but its rank slipped 61 → 58 → 51, and Geometry (40.6) lands below both the state and its own district. The middle school sits flat at 55, 55 and 52, with 6th- and 7th-grade math (49.1 and 43.0) below the state; its 100% Algebra I and Geometry proficiency reflects a small accelerated cohort, not the whole building.
The most striking pattern for families is attendance. Chronic absenteeism rises steadily with grade level: 8.5% at Big Creek, 13.0% at Grindstone, 20.5% at Brook Park, 24.2% at the middle school and 33.4% at the high school, against a district average of 23.1% — nearly a four-fold spread. Note that free/reduced-price lunch data is blank for every school, and spending figures date to 2018–2019, so resource comparisons are directional only.
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