Cascade Career Prep High School
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 3 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 0 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Cascade Career Prep High School
Cascade Career Prep High School is a four-year high school of rural-scale scale in Akron, Ohio, overseen by Cascade Career Prep High School, hosting 102 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 82% smaller than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.
Cascade Career Prep High School sits inside Cascade Career Prep High School, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
In terms of who attends, Cascade Career Prep High School lists that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment; the rest reads as 23% White, 15% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Summit County) reports that median household earnings sit near $71,622, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Cascade Career Prep High School is one of 149 public schools in Summit County (combined enrollment of about 69,214 students).
Nearest neighbor: Steel Academy, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cascade Career Prep High School.
Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. Cascade Career Prep High School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Trend over the last 7 years. Cascade Career Prep High School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 104 (now 102). White enrollment moved from 58% to 23% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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