Summary:
ZIP code 44203 contains 8 schools serving roughly 5,438 students across two districts: Barberton City and Norton City. The area has four elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools, with no alternative schools. The two districts are sharply different: Norton City ranks 138th of 773 districts (82nd percentile, 4 stars), while Barberton City ranks 569th (26th percentile, 1 star). Barberton enrolls about 60% of the area's students; Norton about 40%.
Norton Elementary School posts the strongest elementary results in the ZIP, with 4th grade math at 95.2% and 4th grade ELA at 81%, plus the lowest chronic absenteeism in the area at 8.3%. Norton Middle School reports 100% proficiency in Algebra I and 85.2% in 8th grade math, compared with 29.6% at Barberton Middle School — a 55.6 percentage-point gap. Norton High School graduates 98.1% of students versus 89.8% at Barberton High School, and its chronic absenteeism is 21.3% versus 37.2%.
Barberton has genuine bright spots: Barberton High School beats the state in American Government (80.8% vs. 71.6%), American History (79% vs. 73.2%), and English II (64.4% vs. 62.7%), and Barberton Middle School excels in 5th grade science (90.9%) and Algebra I (98%). Still, Barberton Intermediate School ranks in the 26th percentile with below-state scores in every reported subject and the highest student-teacher ratio at 19.8. Norton Primary Elementary School and Barberton Primary School serve PK–K and early grades, so they have no recent test scores; their absenteeism is 10.0% and 28.8% respectively.
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