Summary:
Zip code 44304 in Akron, Ohio is served by three schools — one elementary, one middle, and one high — covering grades K–12 and enrolling roughly 443 students combined, all rated 1 star and ranking in the lower portion of Ohio schools. Each operates under its own district: Edge Learning, Akros Middle School, and AkroTech High School.
Among the three, AkroTech High School has the strongest relative academic profile despite its 1-star rating: a 90.0% graduation rate, the lowest student-teacher ratio at 10.9, and the smallest average proficiency gap to the state (about 53.4% versus 63.2%, roughly 9.8 points) across its End-of-Course exams. American History is above the state average (75.0% vs 73.2%), while Geometry lags badly at 25.0% versus 43.3%. Akros Middle School is the most improved: its rank percentile rose from 16 to 26, and 7th Grade ELA went from 16.2% to 63.0%, just above the state's 62.7%. Edge Learning enrolls the most students (249) but ranks lowest (11th percentile), with no subject above state; its best result, 4th Grade Math, is 5.8 points below state and improved 31.5 points year over year.
Chronic absenteeism is the most uniform red flag, exceeding half of students at all three schools — Edge 53.1%, Akros 52.9%, and AkroTech 55.7%. Achievement is uneven rather than uniformly poor, with pockets of large year-over-year gains alongside declines, and small enrollments (particularly AkroTech's 67 students) make percentages volatile. Free/reduced lunch is not reported for any school, and per-student spending is available only for 2018–2019 for two schools (Edge $8,082, Akros $7,797), leaving resource and student-need comparisons incomplete.
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