Summary:
ZIP code 44120 contains 7 schools — 4 elementary, 2 high, and 1 alternative, with no standalone middle school, though several PK–8/PK–9 campuses serve middle grades — enrolling a total of 3,539 students across three district contexts: Shaker Heights City (3 schools), Cleveland Municipal (3 schools), and Southern Cleveland Drop Back Indba Innovative Career Academy (1 school). The largest school is Shaker Hts High School with 1,418 students; the smallest is Southern Cleveland Drop Back Indba Innovative Career Academy with 65.
The Shaker Heights schools are the clear academic leaders. Onaway Elementary School ranks 467/1560 (70th percentile, 4 stars), has chronic absenteeism of 10.3% against the Shaker district average of 20.3%, and posts 2025–2026 proficiency of 81.5%–83.9% in ELA and 58.6%–78.7% in math, beating the state in 6 of 7 reported tests. Fernway Elementary School ranks 496/1560 (68th percentile, 3 stars), has the ZIP's lowest absenteeism at 7.7%, was above the state in all 7 reported tests, and has the highest per-student spending ($18,648) and student-teacher ratio (22.4). Shaker Hts High School graduates 98.0% and exceeds the state in 5 of 6 EOC subjects, but Algebra I (50.0%) fell below state (61.6%) and district (65.8%), and absenteeism is 29.4%.
The Cleveland Municipal schools trail far behind. Sunbeam (1st percentile, 0 stars, 50.0% absenteeism), Harvey Rice Elementary School (67.2% absenteeism), and Andrew J Rickoff (6th percentile, 65.5%) report proficiency mostly in the single digits to low 20s. Southern Cleveland Drop Back Indba Innovative Career Academy graduates just 38.1% with 92.5% chronic absenteeism and 0% Geometry proficiency. Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for these schools and should be read as unknown, not zero. Across the ZIP, absenteeism tracks outcomes closely, from Fernway's 7.7% to Southern Cleveland's 92.5%.
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