Summary:
ZIP code 44702 contains exactly one high school: Choices Alternative School, a grades 9–12 campus in the Canton City district with 238 students. Because there are no other local high schools in this ZIP code to compare it with, the most useful context comes from comparing it with its district and Ohio statewide results.
Choices Alternative School is consistently among Ohio’s lowest-ranked schools in the available history. It earned 0 stars in 2023–2024, 2024–2025, and 2025–2026. Its percentile improved from 2 to 8 to 9, but it remains in the bottom 10%; in 2025–2026 it ranked 722 out of 795. The district ranked 640 out of 773, at the 17th percentile with 1 star. The school’s graduation rate is 30.1%, compared with 69.6% for the district, and its chronic absenteeism rate is 90.4%, compared with 35.3% for the district. Only about 9.6% of students were not chronically absent. The 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio is 19.8, per-student spending is $10,265 from 2018–2019, and free/reduced lunch data is not reported.
In 2025–2026 End-of-Course tests, the school averaged roughly 30.0% proficient, below the district’s about 42.2% and the state’s about 63.2%. Biology was a relative bright spot at 50%, above the district’s 40.9% but below the state’s 67%. English II was the sharpest weakness at 13.5%, down from 35.7%, and below the district’s 37.6% and the state’s 62.7%. Algebra I was 19.4% versus 40.8% district and 61.6% state; American Government was 29.2% versus 51.5% district and 71.6% state. Overall proficiency improved from about 23.0% to about 30.0%, with gains in Biology, Geometry, American History, and Algebra I, though English II declined sharply. As an alternative school, these results reflect a distinct student population and should be interpreted with that context; missing lunch data and older spending data also limit broader conclusions.
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