Summary:
ZIP code 44134 in Parma, Ohio contains six schools — four elementary, one middle, and one high school — serving roughly 3,906 students from kindergarten through 12th grade, with five operated by Parma City and one independent charter, Global Village Academy. The two clearest standouts are Dentzler Elementary School, the only Parma City school rated 3 stars this year, and Global Village Academy, which posts the strongest overall test profile in the ZIP.
Dentzler ranks 479 of 1,560 and beats both its district and the state in all four tested areas, including 87.6% in 4th-grade math, while recording the lowest chronic absenteeism of any Parma City school at 12.5%. Compare it with John Muir Elementary School, which serves the same grades in the same district: Dentzler's average proficiency is about 20 points higher, its absenteeism is 7.7 points lower, and it spends $360 less per student. Global Village, meanwhile, has the ZIP's lowest absenteeism at 4.6% — against 34.0% at Shiloh Middle School — and the highest reported poverty rate, yet exceeds the state on 11 of its 14 reported tests. It also spends the least, $6,848 per student, though that figure dates to 2018–19.
At the upper grades, Shiloh Middle School ranks lowest in the ZIP at the 31st percentile and sits below the state in 10 of 11 tests, though its 8th graders post 91.4% in Algebra I — a selective group, since 7th-grade math sits at 22.4%. Normandy High School graduates 97.3% of its students and beats the state in civics and English II, but Geometry is the ZIP's weakest subject at 36.6%, and roughly one in four students is chronically absent. Five of the six schools lost ground in 2025–26 rank, a trend worth confirming next cycle.
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