Summary:
ZIP 44303 in Akron, Ohio, has four listed schools—two elementary, one middle, and one high school—serving about 1,912 students, with three schools in the Akron City district and Towpath Trail High School listed as its own district. King Community Learning Center is the standout: it ranks 44th percentile with 2 stars in 2025-26, has the lowest chronic absenteeism at 13.6%, and posts strong 3rd- and 4th-grade math and ELA results that exceed state proficiency. Portage Path Community Learning Center is also PK–5 in the same district but ranks 12th percentile with 1 star, has 39.3% chronic absenteeism, and all listed test results are below state.
Towpath Trail High School faces the most severe challenges: 96.9% chronic absenteeism, a 49.9% graduation rate, a 28.4 student-teacher ratio, and a rank of 793 of 855, 7th percentile, 0 stars. Its End-of-Course proficiencies are all below state, including 0% in Geometry. I Promise School has the lowest rank percentile in the group at 5th percentile, 0 stars, and a simple 2025-26 proficiency average of about 15.7%, even though it has the smallest student-teacher ratio at 9.7 and the lowest listed 2018-19 per-student spending at $8,662. Its chronic absenteeism is 38.1%, close to the district's 40.9%.
Across the ZIP, attendance and achievement move together: King has both the lowest absenteeism and the strongest results, while Towpath Trail has the highest absenteeism and the weakest results. I Promise and Portage Path sit near the district's high absenteeism rate and rank in the lower percentiles. Portage Path has the highest listed 2018-19 per-student spending at $11,873, but that does not translate into stronger outcomes here. Free/reduced-lunch data are blank for all four schools, spending data are old and missing for Towpath Trail, and test results span different grades, subjects, and exam types, so direct comparisons should be interpreted carefully.
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