Summary
Summit Academy Secondary School - Middletown is a very small school in Middletown, Ohio — a city between Dayton and Cincinnati — serving roughly 81 students in grades 7–12. Its district-level rating places it 724th of 773 Ohio districts (6th percentile, 0 stars), and its most recent school rank is 655th of 795 (18th percentile, 1 star) in 2025–2026. Over the past decade it has stayed mostly in the bottom quartile, with percentile ranks ranging from 8 to 23 and mostly 1-star ratings. Among nearby high schools, it ranks above Marshall High School but below Middletown High School, Edgewood High School, Madison High School, and Monroe High School.
Test results are uneven. The clearest bright spot is American Government, where 81.8% of students tested proficient — above the state's 71.6% and higher than every nearby school listed. American History sits at 60.0%, below the state, while Biology (38.5%), English II (31.3%), and Algebra I (9.7%) fall well below state rates of 67.0%, 62.7%, and 61.6%. The middle grades are also weak: 8th grade science is 22.2%, 7th grade math is 15.8%, 8th grade math is 0%, and English language arts is 15.8% in 7th grade and 17.6% in 8th grade. Math stands out as the most serious academic gap across grades.
Special education students are a genuine relative strength. That subgroup ranked 265th of 575 (54th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026 and 147th of 617 (76th percentile, 4 stars) in 2024–2025 — far better than the school's overall standing. Chronic absenteeism is 54.0% in 2025–2026, still high but improved from 65.5%. The latest graduation rate is 53.3% for 2023–2024, after swinging from 87.5% the prior year; with only 81 students, a few students can shift these rates sharply. Notably, the school's student-teacher ratio of 10.1 is the lowest among nearby schools, though small classes have not yet translated into broad proficiency gains.
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