Summary:
ZIP code 44109 on Cleveland's near west side is served by a single middle school: Constellation Schools: Old Brooklyn Community Middle, a charter school operated by Constellation Schools: Old Brooklyn Community Middle that enrolls 265 students in grades 5 through 8 — roughly 66 students per grade. Because there are no other middle schools in this ZIP code to compare against, the only meaningful benchmark is Ohio as a whole.
On the 2025-26 Ohio State Tests, this school trails the state in every subject and grade tested. Its strongest result is Grade 8 English Language Arts at 40.4% proficient, roughly 69% of the state's 58.3% rate. Its weakest is Grade 5 Mathematics at 15.9%, only about 27% of Ohio's 59.1% rate. Averaged across the ten tested subject-grades, the school reaches 25.7% proficient versus 58.7% statewide. Mathematics is the deepest weakness (20.2% school mean vs. 54.0% state), followed by Science (24.5% vs. 62.0%) and English Language Arts (31.8% vs. 61.9%).
The encouraging news is trajectory: nine of ten tested subject-grades improved in 2025-26, with the school average rising from 17.4% to 25.7% (+8.3 points) while Ohio moved only +1.5 points. Grade 8 ELA gained 17.2 points, and Grade 7 Math climbed from 5.7% to 20.0%. Rank percentile improved from 12 to 14 to 19 over three years, though the school still holds a 1-star rating and remains in the bottom fifth of ranked Ohio schools. Chronic absenteeism of 60.4% — about 3 in 5 students — is the clearest limit on further progress. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported here, and the only spending figure available, $6,333 per student, dates to 2018-19.
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