Summary:
Rocky River City has just one public high school, Rocky River High School, which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls about 792 students — roughly 198 per grade — as part of the Rocky River City district on Detroit Road. Because it is the only high school in the city, there is no local peer school to compare it with; the more meaningful comparisons are against Ohio as a whole and against the school's own past years.
By nearly every measure, this school sits at the top of the state. It ranked #10 of 795 Ohio high schools in 2025-2026, placing it in the 99th percentile with five stars, and it has never fallen outside the top 3% in the three years on record — it was #4 in 2023-2024 and #23 in 2024-2025, and swings at that extreme level reflect tiny score changes rather than real shifts in quality. Across six End-of-Course subjects in 2025-2026, its lowest score was 85.0% and its six-subject average was 93.6%, compared with a state average of 63.2% — a gap of roughly 30 points in every subject. Algebra I posted the largest one-year gain, rising from 85.9% to 93.8%.
Graduation stands at 98.7%, meaning nearly every senior in a class of about 200 finishes. The clearest concern is chronic absenteeism: 19.3% of students — about one in five — missed enough school to be flagged, nearly double the district-wide figure of 10.5%. For additional context, 14.9% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, the student-teacher ratio is 14.1 to 1, and per-student spending is $13,055, drawn from the 2018-2019 school year and therefore older than the test and ranking figures above.
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