Lakewood Local

Lakewood Local in Hebron, Ohio, serves about 1,251 students across three schools — Lakewood Elementary School (PK–2, 421 students), Jackson Intermediate (3–5, 380), and Lakewood High School (9–12, 450) — and the district is ranked 385 of 773 districts, at the 50th percentile with 3 stars. A notable structural gap is that no school in this list serves grades 6–8.

Jackson Intermediate is the most stable and highest-ranked school here: it has held 56th percentile and 3 stars for three years, above the district’s 50th percentile. Its standout results are 4th-grade math at 83.3% proficient and 5th-grade math at 76.0%, both more than 16 points above Ohio. It is above state in 5 of 7 tested areas, though 3rd-grade math and ELA are both 55.9% and below state. Its chronic absenteeism is 15.2%, the lowest among the three. Lakewood High School has the largest enrollment, a 99.2% graduation rate, and strong Algebra I proficiency at 79.2% — 17.6 points above state — but Geometry is 38.6%, below state, a 40.6-point internal gap. Its rank slipped from 52nd percentile/3 stars to 46th percentile/2 stars, and chronic absenteeism is 32.0%, far above the district’s 21.1%.

Lakewood Elementary School has no rank history or state test scores in this list because it serves PK–2. Its chronic absenteeism is 15.7%, below the district’s 21.1%, even though it has the highest free/reduced lunch rate (52.97%) and highest student-teacher ratio (18.3). Across the district, poverty indicators do not line up neatly with absenteeism: Lakewood High School has the lowest free/reduced lunch rate (46.67%) but the highest absenteeism. Spending and class size favor Lakewood High School: $10,978 per student and a 13.6 student-teacher ratio, though that spending figure is from 2018–2019. Overall, the district’s 50th-percentile, 3-star rating masks real school-level differences: Jackson Intermediate is above the district median, Lakewood High School is below it, and Lakewood Elementary School cannot be ranked from this data.