Summary:
Youngstown City contains five high schools — East High School, Chaney High, Youngstown Rayen Early College High School, Youngstown Virtual Academy and Choffin Career Center — enrolling about 1,573 students combined, mostly in grades 9–12, with Virtual Academy also serving grades 6–8 and Choffin serving grades 11–12. The district overall ranks 709 out of 773 districts, at the 8th percentile with 0 stars, but that single number hides very large differences between the schools.
Rayen Early College is the standout: 4 stars, ranked 227 of 795 (71st percentile), and in the top 30% for three straight years. Its graduation rate is 98.4% versus the district's 90.7%, its chronic absenteeism is 18.5% versus the district's 56.7%, and its average proficiency is 73.4% across five reported subjects — above the state in all five (American Government, Biology, English II, Geometry and Algebra I). Rayen also posts the strongest math results, with 65.8% proficient in Geometry compared with East at 10.5%, Chaney at 5.4% and Virtual Academy at 5.3%. By contrast, East (612 students) and Chaney (536 students) sit in the bottom decile at the 8th and 7th percentile with 0 stars, average proficiency of 28.6% and 30.3%, and chronic absenteeism of 76.6% and 68.0%.
Virtual Academy is a paradox: it has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the group at 6.5% and a 91.7% graduation rate, yet it ranks 784 of 795 (1st percentile, 0 stars), averages only 15.0% proficiency, has a 50.0 student-to-teacher ratio, and recorded an exact 0% in both 2024–2025 Geometry and Algebra I. Choffin, with just 29 students and a 2:1 ratio, reports no rank, test, graduation or absenteeism data and is not directly comparable. Rayen reports the highest per-student spending, $14,712 in 2018–2019, versus $12,240 at East and $12,140 at Chaney, but that data is dated and missing for Virtual Academy and Choffin, and free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for every school.
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