Sullivant Avenue Community School

Sullivant Avenue Community School is a K–6 community (charter) school on Columbus's west side at 3435 Sullivant Ave, enrolling 301 students and operating as its own district rather than under Columbus City Schools District or South-Western City. It sits in the bottom tier of Ohio schools — ranked 756th of 773 districts, 2nd percentile, 0 stars — and it has earned no star since 2020–2021, drifting from roughly the 15th percentile in 2017–2019 to the 3rd–9th percentile range in the four most recent years.

State test results in 2025–2026 were far below state averages in every subject and grade, generally landing at about one-quarter to one-fifth of the state rate. Math is the deeper hole: no math grade has reached even 20% proficiency in four years, with 2025–26 results from 8.3% to 13.3% while the state reported 56%–67%. ELA is consistently stronger, averaging about 28% versus about 10% in math, and it rises steadily by grade — 14.3% in grade 3 to 40.0% in grade 6, a locally competitive result that ties Westside Academy and beats Great Western Academy and Bridge Gate Community School. No single student group performs materially better or worse than the school overall.

Chronic absenteeism is the most actionable concern: 61.5%, the highest among ten nearby schools, up from 47.4% two years earlier and far above Westside Academy at 17.0% and West Franklin Elementary School at 30.8%. The school also reports the lowest per-pupil spending in its comparison group ($6,156 in 2018–19, the only year available) and the highest student-to-teacher ratio, which rose from 14.5 to 33.4 in three years while every nearby school reports between 12.0 and 22.2. This isn't purely a neighborhood effect — several Columbus City Schools campuses and other nearby charters outrank it. Small grade cohorts make single-year swings noisy; the multi-year pattern is the reliable signal.