Summary:
ZIP code 44310 in Akron, Ohio is home to three high schools serving grades 9–12 — North High School, Cascade Career Prep High School and Steel Academy — with a combined enrollment of 1,084 students. North is by far the largest at 900 students (about 83% of the ZIP's high schoolers) and belongs to the Akron City district, while Cascade (102 students) and Steel (82) each operate as their own district.
North is the strongest of the three, posting the highest proficiency in every subject it reports and the top graduation rate (87.1%), yet it still trails both its own district and the state in all six subjects. Cascade sits at the other extreme: a 14.0% graduation rate, 100% chronic absenteeism and 0% Algebra I proficiency, with a ranking near the very bottom of Ohio's school list. Steel falls in between but is the most volatile, its percentile swinging from 9 to 23 to 3 over three years; it also has the smallest classes (10.9 students per teacher) and a Government score of 38.9%, closer to North than anything the other small school reports. Six-subject averages run from about 36.5% at North to 13.2% at Steel and 6.3% at Cascade, against roughly 62% statewide.
A few patterns stand out. North graduates 87.1% of students while only 26.9% reach proficiency in English II and 21.3% in Geometry, suggesting completion pathways not tied to test proficiency. Chronic absenteeism is high everywhere — 53.8% at North (12.9 points worse than its district), 67.4% at Steel and 100% at Cascade. Spending and class size don't track outcomes: North spends $10,170 per student versus Steel's $6,259, but Steel has smaller classes and weaker results. Notable data gaps — no free/reduced-lunch figures, no spending for Cascade, and only one year of graduation and attendance data — mean trends should be read as directional.
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