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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 44256

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At a glance

Schools

10,918

Students

Districts

5-star schools

Top rankedGranger Elementary School27^th of 1,560 Ohio elementary schools

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Biggest riser

H G Blake Elementary School up 142 spots statewide this year

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Smallest classes

Medina County Career Center 12.4 students per teacher

SchoolDigger ratings

5★

4★

3 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)

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Summary:

ZIP code 44256 covers Medina and its surrounding communities and is served by 16 schools — 7 elementary, 5 middle, and 4 high schools — across four districts: Medina City School District (8 schools, ranked 133 of 773 statewide), Highland Local (3 schools, ranked 13 of 773), Buckeye Local (4 schools, ranked 153 of 773), and Medina County Joint Vocational School District (1 school).

Highland High School is the strongest performer in the area: 5 stars, 15th of 795 high schools, and a 99.3% graduation rate, with EOC proficiency from 84.1 in Geometry up to 97.8 in American History. Highland Middle School (28 of 1046, 5 stars) and Granger Elementary School (27 of 1560, 5 stars, with ELA 5 at 97.1) are similarly strong. Notably, Highland achieves this with the area's lowest spending and some of its largest classes. A. I. Root Middle School (100 of 1046, 5 stars) leads Medina City's middle schools, and Ralph E. Waite Elementary has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the area at 5.6%. Students with low attendance are far less common at these schools than at others nearby.

Attendance is the clearest dividing line. The lowest rates are at Ralph E. Waite (5.6%), Eliza Northrop Elementary (6.1%), Granger (6.7%), and Sidney Fenn Elementary (7.6%); the highest is Medina High School at 24.6%, well above the Medina City district rate of 15.2%, even though it graduates 98.0% of students. Within Medina City, Claggett Middle School trails A. I. Root on most tested subjects. Buckeye High School is strong in Government (87.6) and History (87.5) but lower in English II (68.9) and Biology (74.4), and its rank slipped from 81 of 855 to 179 of 795. The Medina County Career Center reports no rank, test, graduation, or absenteeism data, and its free/reduced-lunch figure is unknown. Spending figures, from 2018–2019, are historical context only.

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				Ohio State Tests Science (2026)		Ohio State Tests American Government (2026)	Ohio State Tests American History (2026)	Ohio State Tests Mathematics (2026)						Ohio State Tests English Language Arts (2026)						Ohio State Tests Biology (2026)	Ohio State Tests English II (2026)	Ohio State Tests Geometry (2026)	Ohio State Tests Algebra I (2026)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2025)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients (2025)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	Ohio State Tests Science 5th Grade	Ohio State Tests Science 8th Grade	Ohio State Tests American Government End of Course	Ohio State Tests American History End of Course	Ohio State Tests Mathematics 3rd Grade	Ohio State Tests Mathematics 4th Grade	Ohio State Tests Mathematics 5th Grade	Ohio State Tests Mathematics 6th Grade	Ohio State Tests Mathematics 7th Grade	Ohio State Tests Mathematics 8th Grade	Ohio State Tests English Language Arts 3rd Grade	Ohio State Tests English Language Arts 4th Grade	Ohio State Tests English Language Arts 5th Grade	Ohio State Tests English Language Arts 6th Grade	Ohio State Tests English Language Arts 7th Grade	Ohio State Tests English Language Arts 8th Grade	Ohio State Tests Biology End of Course	Ohio State Tests English II End of Course	Ohio State Tests Geometry End of Course	Ohio State Tests Algebra I End of Course	Total
A. I. Root Middle School	Public	6-8	333 W Sturbridge Dr	Medina	44256	Medina County	Medina City School District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(330) 636-3500	690	44	15.7	19.3%	608 (88.1%)	15 (2.2%)	25 (3.6%)	10 (1.4%)	1 (0.1%)	0 (0.0%)	31 (4.5%)	86	100^th of 1046 public middle schools	90.4%		86.2	94^th of 1036 public middle schools	90.9%	6		83.8						69.3	70.5	84.9				75.2	82.2	87.0			100.0	98.9	$14,870
Ella Canavan Elementary School	Public	K-5	825 Lawrence St	Medina	44256	Medina County	Medina City School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(330) 636-4000	475	26	18.2	25.5%	402 (84.6%)	14 (2.9%)	21 (4.4%)	6 (1.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	32 (6.7%)	81.9	244^th of 1560 public elementary schools	84.4%		81.7	263^rd of 1558 public elementary schools	83.1%	19	89.6				80.0	85.9	82.6				80.2	71.8	85.7								$11,514
Medina High School	Public	9-12	777 E Union St	Medina	44256	Medina County	Medina City School District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(330) 636-3200	1,767	104	16.9	22.8%	1,531 (86.6%)	50 (2.8%)	91 (5.1%)	26 (1.5%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.1%)	68 (3.8%)	69.8	156^th of 795 public high schools	80.4%		77.2	96^th of 855 public high schools	88.8%	60			82.3	86.0													84.4	82.6	64.5	70.1	$13,894
Claggett Middle School	Public	6-8	420 E Union St	Medina	44256	Medina County	Medina City School District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(330) 636-3600	724	46	15.6	34.1%	599 (82.7%)	40 (5.5%)	34 (4.7%)	8 (1.1%)	1 (0.1%)	0 (0.0%)	42 (5.8%)	78.5	206^th of 1046 public middle schools	80.3%		77.2	231^st of 1036 public middle schools	77.7%	25		81.3						67.0	59.2	71.9				70.9	73.8	75.3			100.0	100.0	$13,684
Sidney Fenn Elementary School	Public	K-5	320 N Spring Grove St	Medina	44256	Medina County	Medina City School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(330) 636-4100	604	31	19.5	29.3%	503 (83.3%)	19 (3.1%)	31 (5.1%)	7 (1.2%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	43 (7.1%)	82.1	240^th of 1560 public elementary schools	84.6%		86.9	121^st of 1558 public elementary schools	92.2%	119	78.1				80.7	89.7	72.7				82.6	85.7	83.3								$11,646
H G Blake Elementary School	Public	K-5	4704 Lexington Ridge Dr	Medina	44256	Medina County	Medina City School District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(330) 636-3900	470	28	16.6	36.6%	361 (76.8%)	29 (6.2%)	32 (6.8%)	3 (0.6%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	44 (9.4%)	74.3	451^st of 1560 public elementary schools	71.1%		66.6	593^rd of 1558 public elementary schools	61.9%	142	80.3				54.5	90.0	77.8	100.0			66.2	77.8	77.3								$13,804
Ralph E. Waite Elementary	Public	K-5	4765 Cobblestone Park Drive	Medina	44256	Medina County	Medina City School District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(330) 636-4500	500	28	17.7	11.8%	439 (87.8%)	5 (1.0%)	21 (4.2%)	5 (1.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	30 (6.0%)	83.8	193^rd of 1560 public elementary schools	87.6%		86.2	138^th of 1558 public elementary schools	91.1%	55	85.9				83.8	84.0	75.0				87.5	82.7	84.8								$13,908
Eliza Northrop Elementary	Public	K-5	950 East Reagan Parkway	Medina	44256	Medina County	Medina City School District	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(330) 636-4600	466	25	18.2	31.5%	385 (82.6%)	8 (1.7%)	36 (7.7%)	6 (1.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	31 (6.7%)	65.7	623^rd of 1560 public elementary schools	60.1%		76.2	407^th of 1558 public elementary schools	73.9%	216	61.3				71.2	78.9	54.8				66.2	73.7	82.5								$13,489
Buckeye High School	Public	9-12	3084 Columbia Rd	Medina	44256	Medina County	Buckeye Local	No	(n/a)	No	No	(330) 722-8257	636	31	20.3	20.3%	593 (93.2%)	6 (0.9%)	14 (2.2%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	22 (3.5%)	67.8	179^th of 795 public high schools	77.5%		79.4	81^st of 855 public high schools	90.5%	98			87.6	87.5													74.4	68.9	65.6	78.4	$13,825
Buckeye Junior High School	Public	7-8	3024 Columbia Rd	Medina	44256	Medina County	Buckeye Local	No	(n/a)	No	No	(330) 722-8257	312	17	18.6	26.3%	284 (91.0%)	6 (1.9%)	7 (2.2%)	2 (0.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	13 (4.2%)	72.9	282^nd of 1046 public middle schools	73.0%		80.3	179^th of 1036 public middle schools	82.7%	103		78.2							62.0	48.2					79.8	70.1				100.0	$13,495
Buckeye Intermediate School	Public	4-6	3140 Columbia Rd	Medina	44256	Medina County	Buckeye Local	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(330) 722-8257	581	26	22.7	22.2%	520 (89.5%)	4 (0.7%)	24 (4.1%)	2 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	31 (5.3%)								(n/a)	76.8					88.5	82.6	79.9				75.2	80.8	68.6							$9,681
Buckeye Primary School	Public	K-3	3180 Columbia Rd	Medina	44256	Medina County	Buckeye Local	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(330) 722-8257	581	33	17.8	29.1%	507 (87.3%)	16 (2.8%)	31 (5.3%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	26 (4.5%)								(n/a)					83.5						87.6										$11,462
Highland High School	Public	9-12	4150 Ridge Rd	Medina	44256	Medina County	Highland Local	No	(n/a)	No	No	(330) 239-1901	989	52	19.2	10.9%	911 (92.1%)	5 (0.5%)	25 (2.5%)	19 (1.9%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.1%)	28 (2.8%)	87.9	15^th of 795 public high schools	98.1%		86	31^st of 855 public high schools	96.4%	16			92.8	97.8													95.1	93.3	84.1	93.3	$11,215
Highland Middle School	Public	6-8	3880 Ridge Rd	Medina	44256	Medina County	Highland Local	No	(n/a)	No	No	(330) 239-1901	824	32	25.4	9.6%	755 (91.6%)	3 (0.4%)	22 (2.7%)	19 (2.3%)	1 (0.1%)	1 (0.1%)	23 (2.8%)	91.7	28^th of 1046 public middle schools	97.3%		91.4	37^th of 1036 public middle schools	96.4%	9		92.2						86.5	85.6	72.4				89.1	89.9	91.0			100.0	96.4	$11,157
Granger Elementary School	Public	PK, KG-5	1724 Wilbur Rd	Medina	44256	Medina County	Highland Local	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(330) 239-1901	512	27	18.9	11.1%	447 (87.3%)	3 (0.6%)	17 (3.3%)	11 (2.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	34 (6.6%)	92.2	27^th of 1560 public elementary schools	98.3%		91.1	42^nd of 1558 public elementary schools	97.3%	15	91.2				93.9	93.0	94.1				92.4	91.5	97.1								$12,302
Medina County Career Center	Public	7-12	1101 W Liberty St	Medina	44256	Medina County	Medina County Joint Vocational School District	No	(n/a)	No	No	(330) 725-8461	787	63	12.4		695 (88.3%)	18 (2.3%)	41 (5.2%)	3 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	30 (3.8%)								(n/a)

Cities Near Zip Code 44256

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Medina	0.18 mi	18	99^th
Brunswick	6.46 mi	8	171^st
Wadsworth	6.76 mi	11	117^th
Seville	8.15 mi	3	124^th
Hinckley	9.39 mi	2	5^th

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Ohio Department of Education.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMERS: Not all boundaries are included. We make every effort to ensure that boundaries are up-to-date. But it's important to note that these are approximations and are for general informational purposes only. To verify legal descriptions of boundaries or school locations, contact your local tax assessor's office and/or school district.