Olmsted Falls City

Olmsted Falls City has five schools—three elementary, one middle, and one high—serving PK-K through grade 12, with 3,507 students; the district is rated 154th of 773 Ohio districts, in the 80th percentile with 4 stars. Enrollment is 1,228 at the high school (about 35%), 747 at the middle school (21%), 704 at Falls-Lenox Primary Elementary School (20%), 507 at Olmsted Falls Intermediate Building (15%), and 321 at Olmsted Falls Early Childhood Center (9%).

Olmsted Falls High School is the strongest ranked individual school: 122nd of 795, 85th percentile, 4 stars, with a 99.7% graduation rate and strong test scores, but chronic absenteeism is 21.4%, well above the district’s 14.2%. Olmsted Falls Middle School stands out for advanced math: 100% proficiency in Geometry and Algebra I End-of-Course tests, and 7th/8th grade math above 73% versus state rates of 48.6% and 52%; its rank percentile slipped to 76th. Falls-Lenox Primary Elementary School has the lowest absenteeism at 8.7% and 3rd grade ELA at 82.7% versus 63.4% statewide. Olmsted Falls Intermediate Building posts strong math—5th grade 77.8% and 6th grade 100%—but its rank percentile fell to 73rd. The Olmsted Falls Early Childhood Center serves PK-K, so it has no test-score or rank history, with 11.8% absenteeism.

Overall, Olmsted Falls City is a 4-star, 80th-percentile district with strengths in advanced math, high school humanities and biology, and elementary ELA at Falls-Lenox. Attendance generally improves as grade level decreases—8.7% at Falls-Lenox, 9.9% at the Intermediate Building, 11.8% at Early Childhood, 13.2% at the middle school, and 21.4% at the high school. The district aggregate can obscure school-level differences: the high school’s Geometry (65.1%) and Algebra I (70.2%) are below the district’s 69.6% and 78.2%, largely because the middle school’s advanced End-of-Course results lift the district average. Math is strongest in middle grades, while ELA is more variable; there is no simple relationship between poverty, spending, and outcomes. The most visible challenge is high school chronic absenteeism, and the most notable recent trend is the Intermediate Building’s rank decline despite strong math.