Valley Forge High School
Parma Heights · OH · Parma City · Public
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Constellation Schools: Parma Community → Summit Academy Community School - Parma → Steps Educational Group → Normandy High School → Polaris Career Center → Brooklyn High School → Old Brook High School → Rhodes College and Career Academy →📋 At a glance
- 📚 22 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 2 calculus classes · 4 physics · 15 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 86th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 82th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 89% (Bottom 44% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Valley Forge High School compares for families
Standout academic depth by national standards.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 14% nationally with 22 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyOH students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Constellation Schools: Parma Community, Summit Academy Community School - Parma, Steps Educational Group and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
86th 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 · 2020-2182th percentile 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 44% 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.
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 +0.4%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,402 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $17,992 per student in district revenue, the 27 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $485,784/year in additional funding.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Constellation Schools: Parma Community Parma |
Public · charter | 1.0 | 379 | -4.8% |
| Summit Academy Community School - Parma Parma |
Public · charter | 2.3 | 37 | — |
| Steps Educational Group Parma |
Private | 2.4 | 63 | -44.7% |
| Normandy High School Parma |
Public | 3.0 | 1,610 | +44.8% |
| Polaris Career Center Middleburg Heights |
Public | 4.0 | — | — |
| Brooklyn High School Brooklyn |
Public | 4.1 | 379 | -12.5% |
| Old Brook High School Cleveland |
Public · charter | 4.1 | 462 | +133.3% |
| Rhodes College and Career Academy Cleveland |
Public | 4.4 | 587 | -2.3% |