Fishcreek Elementary School

Fishcreek Elementary School is a K–4 school with 301 students in Stow, Ohio (Summit County), one of five elementary schools in the Stow-Munroe Falls City School District and the third-largest of them. It currently ranks 345th of 1,560 Ohio elementary schools — the 78th percentile, with 4 stars — modestly above its own district's standing. That is a big climb: a decade ago the school sat at the 59th–64th percentile, and it has since settled into the 70th–81st band, with 4 stars in every recent year except 2023–24.

On tests, Fishcreek averages 79.4% proficient across its four tested subjects, ahead of its district (75.5%) and well above Ohio (63.7%). The grade-level picture is split, though. Third grade is a strength: 84.3% in math is the best of any Stow-Munroe Falls elementary, and 86.3% in ELA is essentially tied for the top spot. Fourth grade math is the clear soft spot — 71.4%, about 10 points below the district average and the lowest in the district apart from Indian Trail Elementary School. Notably, the same cohort scored 78.9% in third-grade math before falling to 71.4% a year later, suggesting an articulation issue specific to fourth-grade math rather than general weakness. Woodland Elementary School, 1.77 miles away with similar enrollment and poverty rates, sits at the 90th percentile with 5 stars.

Fishcreek's most distinctive strength is attendance: chronic absenteeism of 6.0% in 2025–26 is the lowest of any school in its comparison set and less than half its district's 16.5%. It achieves this with the largest classes in the district (16.7 students per teacher) and a free/reduced-lunch rate that has grown from 18.6% to 29.9% in three years. The school also appears to serve its lower-income students well, ranking in the 79th percentile for that group, and its female students reach the 84th percentile versus 72nd for male students — a gender gap worth watching.