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Grace L Roxbury Elementary 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 98 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 99 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 98% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 82% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Ohio's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Grace L Roxbury Elementary School
Grace L Roxbury Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary school in Solon, Ohio, overseen by Solon City. The school hosts 487 students in grades K through 4. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Grace L Roxbury Elementary School sits 21% larger than that benchmark.
Solon City comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,594 students; Grace L Roxbury Elementary School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Grace L Roxbury Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 26% Asian, 12% Black, 10% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Cuyahoga County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.9:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, Grace L Roxbury Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 81.6%; this one delivers 98.2%, a residual of +16.6 points.
In the surrounding community, Cuyahoga County reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,468 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Grace L Roxbury Elementary School is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).
Nearest neighbor: Orchard Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grace L Roxbury Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Grace L Roxbury Elementary School at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 92.5%.
Grace L Roxbury Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.
Over the past 7-year window. Grace L Roxbury Elementary School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 480 (now 487). Over the same period, the White share fell from 58% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.
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- Parkside Elementary School0.4 mi · 502
- Solon Middle School0.4 mi · 768
- Joseph V. Regano Early Learning Center0.6 mi · 76
- Solon Academy1.0 mi · 76