Summary:
ZIP code 44504 in Youngstown, Ohio contains just one school in this data set: Harding Elementary School, a K–5 building at 1903 Cordova Ave with 324 students, serving a single school community within the Youngstown City district. Because there is only one school here, there are no within-ZIP comparisons — the only benchmarks available are the district and the state of Ohio.
Harding's academic picture is challenging. The school ranked 1,537th of 1,560 Ohio schools in 2025-26 (1st percentile, 0 stars), and it has sat at the 1st percentile for three straight years. That places it below its own district, which itself ranks in the 8th percentile statewide. In 2025-26, Harding trailed the district and the state on all seven reported tests. Proficiency was 16.2% averaged across those tests, versus 30.2% for the district and 63.8% for the state. Math is the weakest area (13.5% school average, including 5.4% in 5th-grade math); English language arts averages 19.9%. Third grade is relatively the strongest part of the profile, with the smallest gaps to the district in 3rd-grade reading and math.
A few bright spots and one pressing concern stand out. Science proficiency in 5th grade more than tripled, from 4.4% to 13.5%, and 5th-grade math and reading also improved year over year, with overall proficiency rising 1.7 points. Chronic absenteeism, however, is 62.9% — higher than the district's 56.7% — meaning roughly three in five students missed at least 10% of school days, which likely affects learning. Resources do not appear to be the obvious constraint: the student-teacher ratio is 12.9:1 and per-student spending was $13,728 (2018-19 data, notably older than the test results). The free/reduced-lunch figure for 2024-25 is not reported, so poverty levels cannot be measured from this data.
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