Summary:
ZIP code 44062, covering the Middlefield area of northeast Ohio, has three schools serving roughly 752 students: Cardinal Elementary School (K–6, 396 students) and Cardinal Junior/Senior High School (6–12, 331 students), both part of Cardinal Local, plus ACE Community Academy (9–12, 25 students), which operates on its own. Cardinal Local enrolls about 97% of the area's students. Because grade 6 is listed at both Cardinal buildings, their enrollments overlap and should not be added together as a simple headcount.
Cardinal Junior/Senior High School is the area's standout and its biggest improvement story, climbing from 2 stars to 3 stars to 4 stars in three years, reaching 77th percentile. Its end-of-course results beat the state in Biology (89.6% vs. 67%), American History (86.5% vs. 73.2%), Government (81.8% vs. 71.6%), Algebra I (72.5% vs. 61.6%) and Geometry (59.2% vs. 43.3%), and its 96.6% graduation rate is a high bar. The weak spot is the middle grades — 7th grade math came in at 26.3% proficient against 48.6% statewide, the lowest result in the ZIP, and 7th grade ELA also trails the state.
Cardinal Elementary School is steady rather than spectacular: 3 stars and a rank percentile that has barely moved (51st, 54th, 52nd), beating the state on 6 of 9 tested subjects, with its largest margins in 3rd grade math and ELA, but below state in 5th grade math and science. It does this while reporting the area's highest free/reduced lunch rate (46.21%) and largest classes (20.5 students per teacher). ACE Community Academy has the smallest classes (8.3 per teacher) but also the highest chronic absenteeism (34.6%, versus 22.3% at the Jr/Sr High and 16.7% at the elementary), and no test scores, graduation rate or spending data are reported, so its academics cannot be judged from this information.
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