Toledo City

Toledo City serves 53 schools — 39 elementary, 13 high school, and 1 alternative, with no standalone middle schools since many elementaries span PK–8 or K–8 and several high schools span 7–12 — enrolling roughly 20,548 students in a district ranked 662 of 773 in Ohio at the 14th percentile with 1 star.

The clearest standouts are the specialized high schools. Toledo Technology Academy of Engineering High School is the strongest overall at the 96th percentile with 5 stars, a 100.0% graduation rate, 8.7% chronic absenteeism, and End-of-Course scores near or above 90% in several subjects. Toledo Early College High School, Toledo Pre-Medical and Health Science Academy, and Aerospace & Natural Science Academy of Toledo also post high graduation rates, low absenteeism, and proficiency well above the district. Among elementaries, Grove Patterson Academy Elementary School has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the entire list at 7.8% and scores of 80–100% in several grades, with Elmhurst Elementary School and Beverly Elementary School close behind. Only 7 of 53 schools rank at or above the 50th percentile.

Chronic absenteeism is the sharpest warning sign: the district rate is 39.8%, and the lowest-performing elementaries run above 50%, including Sherman, Leverette, Rosa Parks, Spring, East Broadway, and Robinson. Math is the biggest academic bottleneck — district Math 7 is 17.8% proficient versus 48.6% statewide, and Algebra I at comprehensive high schools ranges from 8.4% to 27.3% while specialized high schools reach 64.8% to 86.2%. Graduation rates can be misleading: Bowsher High School graduates 89.6% of students but posts low test proficiency, and Woodward High School has the lowest current comprehensive rate at 69.2%. Poverty and spending cannot be fully analyzed because free/reduced-lunch data is blank and spending figures are from 2018–2019.