Ohio Achievement Charter Schools Inc. dba Millennium Commun

Millennium Community School is a K–8 charter school at 3500 Refugee Rd in east Columbus, serving 489 students and ranking among the larger K–8 charters in its immediate area. In 2025–26 it placed 1,302 of 1,560 Ohio schools (17th percentile, 1 star), and its average proficiency across the 14 tested grade-and-subject combinations is about 30% — roughly half the statewide figure of about 60%.

The school's clearest strength is attendance. Chronic absenteeism dropped from 55.9% in 2021–22 to 23.9% in 2025–26, lower than every nearby school except Zenith Academy East (3.0%) and far below the Columbus City Schools District average of 53.8%. Achievement has not yet followed. Math is the weak spot: 5th grade Math is 14%, 7th grade Math 12%, 8th grade Math 12.2%, and 5th grade Science 12% — each roughly 45 to 50 points below the state. The school's best results come in 4th grade Math (58.5%), 5th grade ELA (50%), and 6th grade ELA (46.7%), and upper-grade reading has improved four years running.

Among nearby schools, Millennium Community School is second-lowest of eleven, ahead only of Scottwood Elementary School, but it sits within about 100 rank positions of Berwick Alternative K-8 School, Zenith Academy East, Renaissance Academy dba Bessie Sherrod Price Preparatory Academy, Whitehall Preparatory and Fitness Academy, Eastland Preparatory Academy, and Easthaven Elementary School — a cluster of low-performing schools. Two charter peers within about 1.7 miles have pulled ahead: South Scioto Academy spends less per pupil and reports 66.1% chronic absenteeism yet ranks at the 45th percentile, and Performance Academy Eastland ranks at the 55th percentile while spending within $234 per pupil of Millennium's $6,915 (a 2018–19 figure). Parents should also weigh the reported 48.9-to-1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–25, more than double every nearby school, alongside sharp year-to-year swings in individual grades.