Summary:
ZIP code 44240, covering Kent, Ohio, is home to seven public schools — five elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school — serving 3,762 students combined, with six schools in the Kent City district and one, Brimfield Elementary School, in the Field Local district. The area splits fairly cleanly into two tiers: an upper tier led by Theodore Roosevelt High School, Stanton Middle School, Davey Elementary School, and Holden Elementary School, and a lower tier of Brimfield, Longcoy Elementary School, and Walls Elementary School.
The brightest stories: Roosevelt High climbed to the 82nd percentile with 4 stars, improved in all six tested subjects, and graduates 97.3% of students; Stanton Middle holds 4 stars and posts 100% proficiency in its middle-school Algebra I cohort; Holden, the ZIP's highest-poverty school, still earns one of the two best elementary results; and Davey made the biggest one-year jump, the only elementary to improve in both 4th grade subjects. The concern is Walls, the only 2-star school, whose rank has slipped three years running (58 → 57 → 49) and where 4th grade scores swung sharply downward.
Three patterns matter most to families. First, 4th grade is a system-wide soft spot — four of five elementaries fell below the state in both 4th grade reading and math, with Davey the lone exception — while 5th grade is consistently strong everywhere. Second, Roosevelt's 32% chronic absenteeism is the highest in the ZIP and roughly one in three students, notable given how well the school performs for those who attend. Third, and reassuringly, poverty level and per-pupil spending do not predict results here: Holden and Walls spend nearly the same amount per student yet land at opposite ends of the rankings.
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