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Nordonia High School
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Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are down about 15 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 85% 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 Nordonia High School
Nordonia High School is one of the heavily attended secondary schools in Macedonia, Ohio, part of Nordonia Hills City, with 1,223 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Nordonia High School sits 116% bigger than that benchmark.
Nordonia Hills City comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,405 students; Nordonia High School is among them.
Demographically, Nordonia High School logs that White students make up the majority at 74%; the rest reads as 15% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Summit County's rate of about 34%.
After controlling for student poverty, Nordonia High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 85.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 75.2%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Summit County indicate median household income runs about $71,622, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Summit County runs 149 public schools (combined enrollment of about 69,214 students), of which Nordonia High School is one.
Nordonia Digital Knights Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Nordonia High School. On composite proficiency, Nordonia High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 82.8%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Nordonia High School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 1,241 (now 1,223).
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- Nordonia Middle SchoolMiddle · 524 students
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- Nordonia Digital Knights AcademyHigh · 35 students
- Ledgeview Elementary SchoolElementary · 433 students
- Nordonia Digital Knights AcademyHigh · 35 students
- Nordonia Digital Knights Academy0.0 mi · 35
- Nordonia Middle School1.6 mi · 524
- Ledgeview Elementary School1.8 mi · 433
- Northfield Elementary School1.8 mi · 348
- Lee Eaton Intermediate School2.5 mi · 487
- Rushwood Elementary School3.0 mi · 355