Summary:
Painesville City Local (OH) serves roughly 2,735 students across five schools — three elementaries (Chestnut Elementary School, Elm Street Elementary School, and Maple Elementary School), one middle school (Heritage Middle School), and one high school (Harvey High School) — with the district ranked 645 of 773 in Ohio at the 17th percentile with 1 star. District-wide chronic absenteeism is 21.0% and the graduation rate is 96.5%, but individual schools vary sharply around those marks.
Chestnut Elementary School is the clearest standout: the only 2-star school here, ranked 972 of 1,560 elementaries (38th percentile), with chronic absenteeism of just 5.3%, far below the district's 21.0%. It exceeds the district in every listed elementary subject, including 3rd-grade math at 72.7% and 5th-grade math at 72.2%, and its percentile has climbed from 33rd to 38th. Heritage Middle School is a split picture: grade-level proficiency is low (21.4% to 42.7% in the listed subjects), yet End-of-Course Biology and Algebra I results are 94.7% to 100%, which likely reflects a small advanced cohort rather than school-wide mastery; its percentile slipped to 23rd. Harvey High School graduates 96.9% of students, slightly above the district, but has 36.7% chronic absenteeism and scores below the state in all six listed subjects, including Geometry (23.0%) and Algebra I (27.8%); it sits at the 14th percentile.
Maple Elementary School and Elm Street Elementary School both show uneven results. Maple is stronger in 3rd- and 4th-grade ELA (50.0% and 45.2%) but reaches only 25.0% in 5th-grade math and science. Elm Street has relatively low absenteeism at 11.6% and a solid 5th-grade ELA score of 59.1%, but weak 4th-grade ELA (20.6%) and math (30.2%). Spending and class-size figures are historical, from 2018–2019, and do not map neatly onto outcomes.
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