John Adams College & Career Academy
Cleveland · OH · Cleveland Municipal · Public
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Cleveland Metro Remote School K-12 → Southern Cleveland Drop Back Indba Innovative Career Academy → John F Kennedy High School → Benedictine High School → North Shore High School → Garfield Heights High School → Shaker Hts High School → Cleveland Central Catholic High School →📋 At a glance
- 📚 2 AP courses offered — Strong
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🎓 AP rigor: 52th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 38% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How John Adams College & Career Academy compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 52th percentile nationally with 2 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyOH students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Cleveland Metro Remote School K-12, Southern Cleveland Drop Back Indba Innovative Career Academy, John F Kennedy High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
52th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 38% 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.
👩🏫 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.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -3.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 437 students:
≈ 71 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $23,608 per student in district revenue, the 71 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $1,676,168/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Metro Remote School K-12 Cleveland |
Public | 0.0 | 281 | -29.6% |
| Southern Cleveland Drop Back Indba Innovative Career Academy Cleveland |
Public · charter | 0.6 | 65 | — |
| John F Kennedy High School Cleveland |
Public | 1.6 | 652 | -7.6% |
| Benedictine High School Cleveland |
Private | 1.8 | 285 | -18.8% |
| North Shore High School Garfield Heights |
Public · charter | 1.9 | 368 | +168.6% |
| Garfield Heights High School Garfield Heights |
Public | 2.0 | 942 | -19.8% |
| Shaker Hts High School Shaker Heights |
Public | 2.2 | 1,418 | -9.3% |
| Cleveland Central Catholic High School Cleveland |
Private | 2.2 | 488 | -11.9% |