Solon City

Solon City is a six-school Ohio district — three elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school — serving 4,518 students in an unusually balanced split of about 1,500 students per level, and it ranks #2 of 773 Ohio districts at the 100th percentile with a 5-star rating, with every school in this data also showing 5-star performance.

Among the standouts, Orchard Middle School is ranked #1 of 1,046 middle schools with a 96.75% listed proficiency average, including 100% in 7th-grade Mathematics and 99.3% in 5th-grade Mathematics. On the elementary side, Grace L Roxbury Elementary School leads with a 98.50% average and 100% proficiency in 4th-grade Mathematics and English Language Arts, and has the district's lowest chronic absenteeism at 3.3%; Parkside Elementary School follows at 97.75%, and Dorothy E Lewis Elementary School posts 95.78%. Solon Middle School, ranked #5 of 1,046, reports 100% proficiency in both Algebra I and Geometry End-of-Course tests in both years, while Solon High School ranks #33 of 795 with a 98.9% graduation rate.

Within this high-performing district, Solon High is comparatively lower, with an 89.98% derived proficiency average and the district's highest chronic absenteeism at 9.9%, above the 6.3% district rate. Middle-school math shows an internal split: Orchard reports 100% in 7th-grade Math versus 85.4% at Solon Middle, still far above the 48.6% state figure. Spending and student-teacher ratios are tightly clustered and do not track outcomes here. Note that spending data is from 2018–2019, FRL from 2024–2025, and test scores from 2024–2025 and 2025–2026; missing years should be read as unavailable information.