Summary:
Zip code 44304 is home to a single middle school in this data set: Akros Middle School, located at 265 Park St in Akron and serving grades 6–8 with 127 students. The school also operates as its own district, Akros Middle School. Because there is no other middle school in 44304, parents here cannot compare local peers; the most useful benchmarks are the school's own prior-year results and Ohio state averages.
Academic results improved in 5 of 7 tested subject-and-grade areas from 2024–25 to 2025–26. The standout is 7th grade English language arts, where proficiency rose from 16.2% to 63.0%, essentially matching the state's 62.7% — the only area where the school met or beat Ohio. 7th grade math climbed from 8.1% to 30.4%, 8th grade math from 21.4% to 37.1%, and 8th grade ELA from 19.0% to 34.3%. Still, most areas trail the state: 6th grade math was 17.5% proficient versus 56.2% statewide, a 38.7-point gap, and 6th and 8th grade ELA each lagged by more than 20 points. Chronic absenteeism was 52.9%, meaning more than half of students were chronically absent.
Across all seven tests, average proficiency rose from about 22.1% to 35.4%, while the state average moved only slightly, from about 54.9% to 56.4%, so the school narrowed its average gap but remains below state levels in most areas. Its rank improved from the 16th percentile in the two prior years to the 26th percentile in 2025–26, though that is still bottom-quartile with 1 star. Enrollment is small, which can make year-to-year swings large. Other context: a student-teacher ratio of 15.4 (2024–25), per-student spending of $7,797 (2018–19, so dated), and free/reduced lunch data not provided.
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