Summary:
ZIP code 44255 — Mantua, in Portage County, Ohio — is home to a single high school, Crestwood High School, a combined grades 7–12 building with 598 students in the Crestwood Local district.
Academically, that one building performs like two different schools. High school end-of-course exams average 70.5% proficient against 63.2% statewide — a 7.2-point edge — led by Biology (80.9% vs. 67.0%), English II (76.9% vs. 62.7%), and Algebra I (71.3% vs. 61.6%). The middle grades run the opposite way: 7th and 8th grade tests average 49.4%, which is 7.2 points below the state. 7th grade Mathematics is the clearest concern at 22.6% proficient versus 48.6% statewide, a 26-point gap and the only subject where the school trails its own district. Eight of eleven tests declined year over year, with the steepest drops in 8th grade math (−13.9 points), 7th grade math (−10.3), and 8th grade science (−8.0).
The school graduates 95.1% of students, matching the district's 95.2%, with a 13.2:1 student–teacher ratio and 39.46% of students economically disadvantaged. Chronic absenteeism, however, is 35.8% — 11.4 points above the district's 24.4%, or roughly one in three students. The school's state percentile rank slipped from 73rd (2023-24) to 58th (2025-26), and its star rating fell from 4 to 3. Geometry, at 40.2%, is the weakest high school exam but also the fastest-improving, up 6.5 points. Note that per-student spending of $10,390 dates to 2018-19 and is not a reliable picture of current resourcing. Families weighing this school should look hardest at the middle-grade math results and the absenteeism rate.
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