Schools in Zip Code 44136

ZIP code 44136 in Strongsville, Ohio is served by the Strongsville City district and contains four schools serving grades PK through 8 — two elementary schools and two middle schools, plus no high school — with a combined enrollment of 2,208 students. The district itself ranks 94 of 773 in Ohio, in the 88th percentile with 4 stars, so families here are choosing among schools within an already high-performing system.

Whitney Elementary School is the clear academic standout: 5 stars, state rank 91 of 1,560 (94th percentile, top 6% of Ohio elementaries), and scores above both district and state averages in every reported 2025–26 subject, including Math 4 at 96.1%, ELA 5 at 90.9%, and Science 5 at 87.9%. Chronic absenteeism is just 5.3%, well below the district's 13.6%. Chapman Elementary School also earns 4 stars and beats state averages in every reported test, but it trails the district in most subjects and has slipped from the 88th percentile in 2023–24 to the 71st in 2025–26. Strongsville Middle School, with 1,327 students (about 60% of the ZIP's enrollment), is a 4-star school at the 86th percentile and excels in advanced math — Geometry at 100% and Algebra I at 99.3% proficiency, far above district and state results. Its attendance is the concern: 17.2% chronic absenteeism, the highest here. Strongsville Online Learning Opportunity Academy enrolls only 9 students and reports no test scores, lunch data, or student-teacher ratio, so it cannot be meaningfully compared.

Two things stand out for parents. First, demographics do not predict outcomes here: Whitney has the highest free/reduced lunch rate among reported elementaries (27.93%) yet the best results, while Chapman has the lowest and lower outcomes — suggesting instruction, culture, and attendance matter more than poverty rate alone. Second, the data has limits: spending figures are from 2018–19, the Online Academy's numbers are from 2022–23, and with no high school in this ZIP, high-school outcomes are not represented.