Summary:
Shaker Heights City serves about 4,008 students across six schools — four elementary, one middle, and one high school — and is ranked 355th of 773 Ohio districts, at the 54th percentile with 3 stars. Enrollment is 1,651 in elementary schools (41.2%), 939 in the middle school (23.4%), and 1,418 in the high school (35.4%). The data cover rank history from 2023–24 through 2025–26, chronic absenteeism for 2025–26, test proficiency for 2024–25 and 2025–26, free/reduced lunch for 2024–25, per-student spending for 2018–19, and student-teacher ratios for 2024–25. No test scores here are suppressed.
Onaway Elementary School is the strongest school, the only one with 4 stars, ranking 467th of 1,560 (70th percentile), and above the district in all seven reported elementary subjects. Fernway Elementary School is close behind at the 68th percentile with 3 stars, above both district and state in all seven subjects, and has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 7.7%. Shaker Hts Middle School improved from the 55th to the 61st percentile, holding 3 stars, with Geometry End of Course at 100% proficient and absenteeism at 19.1%, below the district's 20.3%.
Challenges are concentrated elsewhere. Lomond Elementary School ranks lowest among elementaries at the 38th percentile with 2 stars, and Mercer Elementary School is at the 43rd percentile with 2 stars despite low absenteeism of 11.8%. Shaker Hts High School fell to the 43rd percentile with 2 stars, has the highest absenteeism at 29.4%, and is weakest in math — Algebra I at 50.0% proficient versus 65.8% district — though its 98.0% graduation rate and English and social studies results are strong. Spending and class size show no simple link to results.
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