Summary:
Families in the Chagrin Falls Exempted Village district have two middle-level schools: Chagrin Falls Intermediate Elementary School, serving grades 4–6, and Chagrin Falls Middle School, serving grades 7–8. Together they enroll 612 students. Both buildings earned 5 stars, and the district ranks in the 99th percentile of Ohio districts (8th of 773) for 2025–2026. This is a low-poverty community, with free or reduced lunch at roughly 5.9% and 5.8% at the two schools, so differences between the buildings are not explained by economics.
Academically, both schools perform far above state averages. Every tested subject at both buildings beats the state, with margins ranging from +25 points (8th grade Science) to +56.7 points (Geometry). The Middle School is the state-level standout: it ranked #2 in Ohio two years in a row, then slipped to #21 of 1,046 — still top 2% — while posting 100% proficiency in Geometry both years and 97.5% in Algebra I. But the two buildings moved in opposite directions this year. The Intermediate school improved on 4 of 7 measures, including a 10-point jump in 6th grade Math, while the Middle School declined on 6 of 7, with the largest drops in 8th grade Science (−9.2) and 7th grade Math (−8.6).
Three things are worth watching. Absenteeism climbs with grade level — 6.1% in grades 4–6, 9.2% in grades 7–8, and 9.8% district-wide — though the Middle School still beats the district figure. Science is consistently the relative soft spot across both buildings. And the Intermediate campus reports 100% in 7th grade Math even though it serves grades 4–6, which reads as a reporting artifact rather than evidence about its grade 4–6 instruction. Finally, the per-pupil spending figures ($14,193 vs. $9,792) date to 2018–19 and should be treated as historical context, not current conditions.
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