Summary:
Wickliffe City is a small Ohio district with just two schools — Wickliffe Lower School, an elementary building serving grades PK–6 with 642 students, and Wickliffe Upper School, serving grades 7–12 with 586 students — both located at the same address, which means grades 7 and 8 are housed inside the "high school" record rather than a separate middle school. The district as a whole is rated 2 stars and ranks in the 33rd percentile of 773 Ohio districts, but that district-wide number hides a real split between the two buildings.
The two schools are heading in different directions. Wickliffe Lower School has climbed from the 36th to the 46th percentile over three years — the only sustained upward trend here — with genuinely strong early results: 4th grade math at 83.3% proficient versus 67.3% statewide, and 3rd grade math at 74.5% versus 62.1%. Wickliffe Upper School has slipped slightly, from the 45th to the 43rd percentile, yet it posts a 99.1% graduation rate and its best subject, American Government, at 84.5% versus 71.6% statewide. Its average math score, however, sits 16.5 points below the state average.
For parents, the most important pattern is math after 4th grade. In the Upper School, 5th grade math is 34.1% versus 59.1% statewide, 7th grade is 27.2% versus 48.6%, and 8th grade is 24.6% versus 52.0%. Chronic absenteeism is also notably higher at the Upper School (38.1%) than the Lower School (24.0%), and above the district rate of 30.5%. Per-student spending is nearly identical between the buildings ($12,518 versus $12,703), but class sizes are larger at the Lower School (23.7 students per teacher versus 18.9). Free or reduced lunch rates are 49.84% and 55.46%, respectively.
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