Best Public Schools in Zip Code 44110

ZIP code 44110 has seven schools — five elementary or PK-8/K-8 schools and two high schools — serving about 1,796 students, mostly within Cleveland Municipal and two charters in Lake Erie Preparatory School and East Academy. The elementary schools enroll 1,238 students and the high schools 558, and Cleveland Municipal accounts for about 73% of enrollment. No standalone middle or alternative schools appear here, and free/reduced-lunch data are not reported, so poverty status cannot be compared from this file.

Among the standouts, Ginn Academy has the highest graduation rate at 89.7%, compared with the district’s 79.6%, and the highest overall reported proficiency average, about 37.4%. Its Geometry score is 40.3%, American Government 44.7%, and American History 44.4%, but chronic absenteeism is 77.6%, the highest in the ZIP. Collinwood High School is at the 1st percentile and graduates 50.0%, with Geometry at 0% proficient, Algebra I 12.2%, English II 21.6%, and Biology 19.4%. Memorial School is the largest at 375 students and shows upper-grade strengths: 5th-grade ELA 57.1% vs. district 41.7%, 8th-grade math 36.7% vs. 29.1%, and 8th-grade science 33.3% vs. 28.3%, with absenteeism 50.9%. Hannah Gibbons-Nottingham Elementary School has the best attendance at 34.9% but the lowest overall reported proficiency average, about 15.4%, though 7th-grade ELA is 47.6%.

Attendance and achievement do not move neatly together. Lake Erie Preparatory School has relative ELA strengths such as 3rd-grade ELA 60.9% and 5th-grade ELA 61.3%, but 5th-grade science 12.9%, 8th-grade science 16.7%, 5th-grade math 9.7%, and 8th-grade math 10%, with 63.4% chronic absenteeism. East Academy has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 12.8 and lowest per-pupil spending at $7,886, but ranks at the 3rd percentile with 67.8% chronic absenteeism. East Clark has 70.5% chronic absenteeism, though 4th-grade math is 47.1%, 5th-grade ELA 43.5%, and 5th-grade science 26.1%, while 8th-grade math is 0%. All seven schools rank near the bottom of Ohio, percentiles range 1 to 16 with median 9, and every school’s 2025-26 percentile is lower than its 2023-24 percentile; no reported test score reaches the corresponding state average.