Cleveland Sports Academy

Cleveland Sports Academy is a Cleveland, OH school serving grades 6–10, an unusually wide span that includes early high school years and sets it apart from the traditional 6–8 middle schools nearby. In 2025–2026 it ranked 647th of 1,046 Ohio schools (38th percentile, 2 stars), while its Cleveland Sports Academy district placed 536th of 773 districts (31st percentile, 2 stars). Reported enrollment is 0, which is strange given that test-score and attendance data do exist; it may signal a reporting issue or a school in transition, and it leaves class sizes and per-student context unavailable.

The biggest concern by far is attendance. The chronic absenteeism rate is 93.9%, the highest of any nearby school — about 20 percentage points above the next highest, Constellation Schools: Stockyard Community Middle at 73.7%, followed by Garfield Heights Middle School at 63.8% and Constellation Schools: Old Brooklyn Community Middle at 60.4%. By contrast, Cuyahoga Hts Middle School reports 6.1%, Shaker Hts Middle School 19.1%, and Garfield Middle School in Lakewood 21.4%.

Academics are mixed. The bright spot is 6th-grade math, where 66.7% of students were proficient versus 56.2% statewide, beating Shaker Hts Middle (55.4%), Lakewood's Garfield Middle (63.2%), Roxboro Middle School (48.9%) and Baumgardner Middle School (32.9%); only Cuyahoga Hts Middle was higher (76.4%). That strength doesn't carry over: 7th-grade math is 40% versus 48.6% statewide, 6th-grade English language arts is 33.3% versus 56%, 7th-grade ELA is 50% versus 62.7%, and Algebra I is 53.8% versus 61.6% — below every nearby school with comparable Algebra I data. Free/reduced-lunch percentage and student-teacher ratio aren't reported, and only one year of ranking history exists, so the school's direction over time is unknown.