Orange City

Orange City is a small, consistently high-performing district serving students across three schools: one elementary, one middle, and one high school, all listed at the same campus address at 32000 Chagrin Blvd in Pepper Pike, with no alternative school. The district ranks 29th of 773 Ohio districts — the 96th percentile — with 5 stars, and Moreland Hills Elementary School, Ballard Brady Middle School, and Orange High School each hold 5 stars in every reported year. Note that the reported grade spans overlap at grade 8 between the middle and high school, so enrollments should not simply be added together.

Ballard Brady Middle School is the clearest standout: it ranks 26th of 1,046 middle schools (98th percentile) and has climbed steadily from 62nd and then 47th in the prior years. It has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 4.6% — well below the district's 8.3% — and reached 100% proficiency on the Biology, Geometry, and Algebra I End-of-Course exams. Moreland Hills Elementary School is the largest school and posts very high elementary results, including 5th-grade ELA at 96.9%, Science at 96.3%, and Math at 94.7%, with absenteeism of 6.6%, all despite having the highest student-teacher ratio of the three at 16.6.

Orange High School graduates 96.6% of students and shines in the humanities, with American History at 94.2%, English II at 92.0%, and American Government at 90.2%. Its main challenges are attendance and math: chronic absenteeism is 14.2%, the only rate above the district average and more than three times Ballard Brady's, while Algebra I (77.5%) and Geometry (78.6%) fall below district averages of 89.4% and 81.7%. Because the middle school's perfect End-of-Course results feed into district averages, cross-level comparisons should be made with care.