Summary:
ZIP code 44718 in the Canton, Ohio area contains just two public schools — both elementary — enrolling 954 students in total: Lake Cable Elementary School (grades K–5, 544 students) in Jackson Local, and Robert A. Taft Elementary School (grades PK–4, 410 students) in Plain Local. There are no middle, high, or alternative schools inside this ZIP, so families here move to other buildings after the elementary years. The two schools sit in different districts and serve different grade spans.
Both schools score well above the Ohio average on state tests — every tested subject at both buildings beats the state. Taft averages 85.2% proficiency against Ohio's 63.7%, and Lake Cable averages 82.8% against 63.8%. Taft ranks #163 of 1,560 schools statewide (90th percentile), ahead of Lake Cable's #242 (84th percentile), even though Taft belongs to the lower-ranked district. Taft improved in every tested grade and subject this year, jumping from the 76th to the 90th percentile, and its 4th-grade English score landed at exactly the same 83.8% as Lake Cable's.
Lake Cable's strengths are stability and climate: chronic absenteeism of 6.7% is less than half Taft's 16.7%, and it posts the ZIP's strongest math and science figures, including 90.7% in 4th-grade math and 85.6% in 5th-grade science. Taft, however, enrolls far more students from low-income families (66.59% vs. 27.39% free/reduced lunch) yet still produces near-top-decile results, beating its own district in all four tested areas. Taft spends $686 more per student ($8,680 vs. $7,994), though those figures date to 2018–19, and class sizes are similar (18.8 vs. 18.1). Because Taft ends at 4th grade, it has no 5th-grade science test to compare, and both schools earned 4 stars, so rank percentiles are the better differentiator.
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