Summary
Dike School of Arts is a PK–8 school serving 296 students in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood, part of the Cleveland Municipal district. Its overall academic position has been low for a decade: it has never ranked above the 16th percentile or above 1 star, and in 2025–26 it placed 1459th of 1560 schools, in the 6th percentile. On 2025–26 state tests, none of its 14 reported subject-grade results met the state average, and only 3rd-grade math and 3rd-grade ELA beat the district average. The clearest bright spot is grade 3, where math proficiency rose from 10.7% to 25.9% to 35.7% and ELA from 25.0% to 32.1% to 39.3%; ELA is generally stronger than math and science, while grades 6–8 are the weakest area.
Attendance is the school's strongest comparative metric. In 2025–26, about 50.4% of students were chronically absent, better than the district's 54.3% and better than 9 of 11 nearby schools, yet achievement remains near the bottom of that same local group. The student–teacher ratio was 19.7 in 2024–25, higher than most nearby schools and worse than the prior year's 16.7. Per-pupil spending was $13,665 in 2018–19, above every charter in the comparison set, so the school is not the under-resourced option here.
Locally, the school is mid-pack in a very low-performing band. It has nearly identical average grade-level proficiency to George Washington Carver — roughly 12% in math and 27% in ELA — but Campus International School, about 1.8 miles away in the same district, is far ahead, at roughly 59% math and 72% ELA. Broadway Academy is another nearby outlier: a charter that moved from the 17th to the 60th percentile over three years with lower per-pupil spending and worse attendance, though it is unclear if that is replicable. One concern for older students: the school reports no Algebra I end-of-course results, while that nearby district school reports 90% proficiency, suggesting a gap in accelerated middle-school math access. For parents, the takeaway is an early-grades school with momentum in grade 3 and comparatively strong attendance, but grades 4–8 and high-school readiness remain areas to watch.
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