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Copley High School
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 80% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Copley High School
Copley High School is a sprawling high school in Copley, Ohio, overseen by Copley-Fairlawn City. The school serves 895 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Copley High School sits 58% above that benchmark.
Copley-Fairlawn City comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,726 students; Copley High School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Copley High School logs that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment; the rest consists of 15% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Summit County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, Copley High School lists 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Summit County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Copley High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 79.9%; this one delivers 75.8%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Summit County put the typical household earns roughly $71,622 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Copley High School is one of 149 public schools in Summit County (combined enrollment of about 69,214 students).
The closest other public school is Copley-Fairlawn Middle School, roughly 1.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Copley High School at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 86.3%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Over the past 7-year window. Copley High School's enrollment has contracted 13% since 2018, when it stood at 1,031 (now 895). Over the same period, the White share fell from 75% to 71%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.
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