Summit Academy Secondary - Akron
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Our Lady Of The Elms School → Buchtel Community Learning Center → Firestone Community Learning Center → Towpath Trail High School → St Vincent-St Mary High School → Akron Early College High School → AkroTech High School → Akron Career Tech High School →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 25% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 14% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 49% (Bottom 10% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Summit Academy Secondary - Akron compares for families
What families should know about Summit Academy Secondary - Akron.
- ▸ LocallyOH students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Our Lady Of The Elms School, Buchtel Community Learning Center, Firestone Community Learning Center and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 14% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 10% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -2.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 60 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady Of The Elms School Akron |
Private | 0.8 | 335 | +66.7% |
| Buchtel Community Learning Center Akron |
Public | 0.9 | 587 | +17.6% |
| Firestone Community Learning Center Akron |
Public | 1.6 | 1,033 | -16.4% |
| Towpath Trail High School Akron |
Public · charter | 2.3 | 767 | +99.7% |
| St Vincent-St Mary High School Akron |
Private | 2.6 | 630 | -1.3% |
| Akron Early College High School Akron |
Public | 2.9 | 399 | +4.7% |
| AkroTech High School Akron |
Public · charter | 3.4 | 67 | — |
| Akron Career Tech High School Akron |
Public · charter | 3.5 | 93 | — |