Summary:
ZIP code 44703 in Canton, Ohio contains just one public school: Canton Arts Academy @ Summit, an elementary arts academy serving grades K–6 with 268 students. It operates within the Canton City school district, which is ranked 640th of 773 Ohio districts — 17th percentile, or 1 star. Because there is only one school here, the useful comparisons are between this school and its district and state, not between competing local schools.
The headline for parents is that this school significantly outperforms its district. On the 2025–2026 Ohio State Tests, its average proficiency across all nine tested subjects and grades was 66.8%, compared with 35.7% for the district and 62.1% for the state, and it earned 3 stars versus the district's 1 star. It beat the district on all 18 reported test results across two years, with no exceptions. Third-grade English language arts is the standout: 85.2% proficient, 39.9 points above the district and 21.8 points above the state, and it was similarly strong the year before. Chronic absenteeism is the most striking figure — 9.9% at the school versus 35.3% in the district, roughly one-third the district rate.
Two results are worth watching. Fifth-grade math came in at 40% proficient, 19.1 points below the state and down 17.1 points from the prior year; sixth-grade ELA was 51.1%, 4.9 points below state and down 22 points year over year. Both involve small groups of test-takers, so a handful of students can move the numbers sharply, and these are upper-grade results rather than a school-wide pattern. The school's state ranking has eased from the 72nd to the 58th percentile over three years, but its own scores held nearly steady while the state average rose slightly. Note that free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, so the school's economic context is unknown, and the $12,252 per-student spending figure dates to 2018–2019 and should be treated as historical only.
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