Best High Schools in Zip Code 44094

ZIP code 44094 contains three high schools — South High School and Kirtland High School, both serving grades 9–12, and Northern Career Institute, serving grades 11–12 — with a combined enrollment of 1,478 students across two districts, Willoughby-Eastlake City and Kirtland Local. South is the largest at 995 students (about 67% of the total), followed by Kirtland at 335 (about 23%) and Northern at 148 (about 10%). South and Northern are both in Willoughby-Eastlake City; Kirtland is in Kirtland Local.

Kirtland is the standout. It ranks 37 out of 795 schools statewide (95th percentile, 5 stars), and its district ranks 35 out of 773 districts (95th percentile, 5 stars). It reports a 100.0% graduation rate and outperforms South in all six reported end-of-course subjects: American Government 97.6%, American History 93.8%, English II 93.8%, Biology 91.3%, Geometry 81.4%, and Algebra I 80%. Even its lowest score, Algebra I, is 18.4 points above the state, and its Geometry result is 38.1 points above the state. Kirtland has improved over the past two years, and its free/reduced lunch rate is 9.25%. Its main weak spot is chronic absenteeism at 21.1% — lower than South's, but still well above its district's 11.5%.

South ranks 445 out of 795 schools (44th percentile, 2 stars), and its district ranks 416 out of 773 (46th percentile, 2 stars). Its strengths are social studies and biology — American Government 84%, American History 83%, and Biology 71.8%, all above the state — while English II (51.4%), Geometry (40.4%), and Algebra I (54.6%) fall below it. South's graduation rate is 94.1%, and its chronic absenteeism is 27.8%, above its district's 24.2%. Its free/reduced lunch rate is 42.11%, compared with Kirtland's 9.25%. Student-teacher ratios are similar at South (17.9) and Kirtland (17.6), and lower at Northern (12.3). Northern has no test score, graduation, absenteeism, rank, or spending data in this extract, and its free/reduced lunch value is not reported; that gap should not be read as low performance.