Summary:
ZIP code 44707 in Canton, Ohio, contains two public elementary schools — Stephanie Rushin Patrick Elementary School (K–6, 418 students, part of the Canton City district) and Summit Academy Community School for Alternative Learn-Canton (K–8, 138 students, operating as its own charter district) — and both sit in roughly the bottom 8–15% of Ohio schools.
Neither school met the state average in any grade or subject in 2024-25 or 2025-26. Summit Academy holds the ZIP's highest results: 58.8% proficient in 4th grade ELA in 2024-25, just 3.1 points under the state's 61.9%, plus the best 2025-26 marks in 5th grade ELA (56.3% vs. 70.4%) and 5th grade math (43.8% vs. 59.1%). It also has the far worse attendance picture, with 54.1% of students chronically absent — more than half — and exact 0% proficiency in three grade-subject cells. Stephanie Rushin Patrick is about three times larger, spends roughly 43% more per student ($11,766 vs. $8,237), and has the lower chronic absenteeism rate (31.7% vs. 54.1%), making it the only one of the two that beats its own district on attendance (31.7% vs. 35.3%). Its best 2025-26 showing was 41.9% in 5th grade ELA, but it trailed its district in all nine tested areas that year.
Both schools improved on average from 2024-25 to 2025-26 — Patrick by 2.9 points, Summit by 4.5 — though Summit's gains and drops are volatile given grade cohorts of only about 15–18 students. Grade 5 is the shared strength, while Patrick's 5th grade science (14% vs. 62.7%) was the lowest relative result in the data. Note two limits: free/reduced-lunch figures are blank for both schools, and spending numbers date to 2018-19.
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