Summary:
ZIP code 44017 covers Berea, Ohio, a suburban community in Cuyahoga County served by two public schools in the Berea City district: Grindstone Elementary School (grades PK–4, 641 students) and Berea-Midpark High School (grades 9–12, 1,694 students). Together they enroll 2,335 students, with the high school accounting for about 72.5% of that total. The district itself ranks 306 of 773 statewide.
Grindstone Elementary School is the standout, earning 4 stars and ranking in the 77th percentile statewide. It outperforms both its district and the state in every assessed subject, averaging 78.8% proficient versus 73.2% for the district and 63.7% for the state. Chronic absenteeism is 13.0% — about one in eight students, and well below the district's 23.1%. Berea-Midpark High School holds 3 stars (51st percentile) and posts a 98.4% graduation rate, with scores above the state in five of six End-of-Course subjects. Its weak spots are Geometry (40.6, below both district and state) and chronic absenteeism of 33.4% — roughly one in three students.
The two schools are headed in different directions: Grindstone has held steady at 4 stars for three years, while Berea-Midpark has slipped from the 61st to the 51st percentile. Absenteeism shows the sharpest split in the ZIP — a 20.4-point gap between the schools. Note that free/reduced-lunch figures are not reported for either school, so socioeconomic context is unavailable, and the only spending data ($11,070 elementary, $10,651 high school) dates to 2018–19. Because the schools serve different grade levels and take different tests, compare each against its district and state peers rather than head to head.
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