Summary:
ZIP code 44139, which covers Solon and its surrounding neighborhoods, is home to seven schools — four elementary, two middle, and one high school — enrolling roughly 4,594 students. Six of the seven belong to Solon City Schools, a district ranked 2nd of 773 in Ohio at the 100th percentile with 5 stars. The seventh, Solon Academy, is a separate district serving only grades K–2.
The strongest performer is Orchard Middle School, ranked #1 of 1,046 Ohio middle schools in 2025-26 and scoring 100% proficiency in 7th grade math. Grace L Roxbury Elementary School ranks #5 of 1,560 elementary schools and posted 100% proficiency in both 4th grade math and 4th grade ELA, while Parkside Elementary School ranks #6 of 1,560 and Solon Middle School ranks #5 of 1,046. Across Solon City elementaries, math proficiency runs 95–100% and ELA 94.2–100%, far above state ranges of 62.1–67.3% in math and 61.8–63.4% in ELA. Solon High School ranks 33rd of 795 high schools and graduates 98.9% of students, though its Algebra I (83.3%) and Geometry (84.6%) results trail district averages of 92.5% and 89.0%.
Attendance and economic need look different at the ZIP's two outliers. Solon High's chronic absenteeism of 9.9% is above the district rate of 6.3%, while Solon Academy reports 24.8% absenteeism and a 71.05% free/reduced lunch rate; it has no rank, test, or spending data, so its achievement cannot be compared. Elsewhere in the district absenteeism is low — Grace L Roxbury's 3.3% is the lowest — and student-teacher ratios are tightly clustered from 17.8 to 19.3. Per-student spending (2018-19) ranges from $11,045 at Solon Middle to $15,286 at Solon High, showing spending and rankings do not move in lockstep. Rank trends are stable or improving at every school except the high school, which slipped from 19th to 29th to 33rd statewide.
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