Summary
Horizon Science Academy-Springfield is a K–8 charter school at 630 S Reynolds Rd in Toledo, OH (43615) enrolling 331 students, operating as its own charter district on Toledo's southwest side near the Springfield Local boundary.
Statewide, Horizon ranks 991st of 1,560 Ohio elementary schools — the 36th percentile, rated 2 stars. A decade ago it sat near the 13th–14th percentile, so this is a real turnaround that has since settled into a plateau: the school has held 2 stars for five straight years, with its best recent year in 2024–25 at the 41st percentile. Among the ten closest schools, nine rank below Horizon, several dramatically so — Byrnedale Elementary School, Keyser Elementary School, and Glendale-Feilbach Elementary School, all in Toledo City, sit at the 5th–7th percentile with 0–1 stars. Only Toledo Preparatory and Fitness Academy (2.7 miles away, 38th percentile) is comparable, and Horizon's average proficiency across grades 3–8 (52.8% math, 52.9% ELA) is the highest in that peer group. Holland Intermediate School lands lower on both measures.
Horizon's brightest spots: grade 5 is above the state in math, ELA, and science, and grade 8 beats the state in math and ELA. Its clearest weaknesses are grades 6–7 math, early-grade (3–4) reading, and 8th grade science — targeted instructional gaps rather than broad failure. Chronic absenteeism has dropped from 54.3% to 39.4% in four years, a genuine improvement, but it remains high: Holloway Elementary School (13.4%) and Holland (20.4%) are far lower. Class sizes are comparatively small (13.2 students per teacher, second-lowest locally), though that ratio has risen from 9.3 in three years, and per-student spending was the second-lowest in the group. Notably, the school's state subgroup rankings are stronger than its overall rating: 73rd percentile with 4 stars for African American students, held three years running, and 47th–54th percentile for low-income students.
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