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CH-UH Announces Report Card Gains For 2024-2025
The Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District is celebrating an overall score of 3.5 on the 2024-2025 Ohio state report card, an increase of an entire star from 2023-2024.
 
The state report card includes performance information provided by schools and districts, including academic, financial, and student opportunities. Some of this data is then combined into six components that receive star ratings from 1-5. Information on the star descriptors can be found here.
 
Key takeaways for the 2024-2025 CH-UH Schools state report card:
  • Eight out of 10 CH-UH schools met or exceeded state expectations.
  • The District maintained its scores in four components and increased its scores in two components: Gap Closing and Progress.
  • The weighted graduation rate is 92.4%, the highest for CH-UH since the state report card was implemented in its current, star-rating format.

Graduation Rate

The Graduation Component is a measure of the four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate and the five-year adjusted cohort graduation rate.

District star rating: 3 (maintained from 2023-2024)

  • The District has a weighted graduation rate of 92.4%, which is an increase from last year’s 91.6%. This is the highest weighted rate for graduation that the District has earned since the state report card was implemented in its current, star-rating format.
  • The District currently has a four-year graduation rate of 90.2% for students who entered the 9th grade in the 2020-2021 school year and graduated in 2024. This held steady from last year’s 90.6%. 
  • The District currently has a five-year graduation rate of 95.7%. The five-year graduation rate applies to students in the class of 2023 who graduated within five years.
The District’s 4-year graduation rate goal, a key component of the CH-UH City Schools 2026 Strategic Plan, is 95%. 
“Our staff at all grade levels should be extremely proud of this accomplishment. The hard work and commitment to student success is evident. Even beyond graduation, we remain focused on our students’ post-secondary outcomes and will build upon the success of the Heights High School Class of 2025, which earned a collective $22.6 million in college scholarships,” said CH-UH Schools Superintendent Elizabeth Kirby.

Gap Closing

The Gap Closing component shows how well schools and districts are meeting the performance expectations for students in English language arts, math, and graduation. It also measures how well schools and districts are reducing chronic absenteeism, supporting English learners to increase language proficiency, identifying gifted students, and providing gifted services to those gifted students.

District star rating: 4 (increased one star from 2023-2024)

In 2016, CH-UH implemented an Educational Equity Policy, the first of its kind in Cuyahoga County. Educational equity addresses the policies, practices, programs, personnel and resources required to ensure access to educational opportunity and achievement for all students. A 4-star rating indicates that the District is exceeding state standards.
 
Included in the Gap Closing component is the Gifted Performance Indicator, which measures the opportunities provided to and performance of gifted students. The District scored significantly well in two of the three elements.
“The Gifted Education team in CH-UH worked incredibly hard last year to ensure students are identified, receive appropriate services, and are successful in the classroom, and that hard work is evident in our scores,” said Superintendent Kirby.
Additionally, English Learners showed great improvement from 23-24 to 24-25, evident in the District’s perfect score in that measure.
 

Early Literacy

The Early Literacy Component is a measure of reading improvement and proficiency for students in kindergarten through third grade.

District star rating: 3 (maintained from 2023-2024)

The District’s 2026 target is 100% of 3rd graders reading at or above their identified grade level. By the end of the 2024-2025 school year, 64% of third graders were reading at or above grade level. 
“I want to thank our teachers for their diligent work with our youngest learners to set them up for academic success beyond third grade,” said Superintendent Kirby.
Ensuring success in early literacy begins before a child comes to kindergarten. All three of the District’s preschool programs boast Gold ratings, the highest possible, from Ohio’s Department of Children & Youth.
 

Achievement  

The Achievement Component measures students' academic achievement using each level of performance on Ohio's State Tests.

District star rating: 2 (maintained from 2023-2024)

The calculation includes performance on the following assessments: English language arts (grades 3-8), Math (grades 3-8), Science (grades 5, 8), English language arts II, Integrated Math I and II, Geometry, Algebra I, Biology, American History, American Government, and approved substitutes using performance on Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate assessments.
“Our high school students in particular improved in every tested subject area this year,” noted Superintendent Kirby. “This is a testament to their hard work, as well as their teachers’ strategic and collaborative efforts to support student growth.”
Within the Achievement component is the Performance Index, which measures the test results of every student, not just those who score proficient or higher. The District’s PI for 2024-2025 was 74.6, a jump from the previous year’s 69.2 and the highest PI in five years.
 

Progress

The Progress Component measures the amount of growth made by groups of students compared to students like them across the state. The overall value-added composite combines growth across all subjects and grades at the school or district for the past three years.

District star rating: 3 (increased one star from 2023-2024)

Academic growth is measured by looking at the current achievement compared to prior
achievement results on Ohio’s State Tests. The District’s 2024-2025 scores indicate that Heights students in seven out of 10 schools made or exceeded expected growth on the OST, based on state measures.
 
In the 2024-2025 school year, the District adopted a new K-12 math curriculum, ensuring there are high-quality instructional materials in every classroom.
“All educators have been able to participate in meaningful professional development to become experts in the newly adopted curriculum. I am especially excited about the Clarity for Learning professional learning that teachers committed to over the past two years, thanks in large part to the leadership of our Curriculum & Instruction Team,” said Superintendent Kirby.

College, Career, Workforce and Military Readiness

The College, Career, Workforce, and Military Readiness Component measures how well-prepared Ohio's students are for all future opportunities.

District star rating: 3 (not rated in 2023-2024)

Measures in this component include industry-recognized credentials, honors diplomas, AP exam scores, dual enrollment credit, technical assessment, and more. The District is proud to offer credentialed programming through Heights Career Tech, as well as opportunities for students to earn college credit while in high school. Heights Career Tech earned 5 stars this year on the Career Technical Planning District Report Card.
“This measure represents the collective effort of all CH-UH staff members to ensure that students have a concrete plan and the tools to execute that plan as they graduate from our schools. We will continue to strengthen those pathways and opportunities for students, increasing our career and college awareness and readiness from grades PreK through 12,” said Superintendent Kirby.

Overall Rating 

District star rating: 3.5 (increased one star from 2023-2024)

“I am incredibly proud of our students, staff, families, and community for what we have achieved. Along with this state rating, we remain resolute and focused on our 2026 Strategic Plan and Measures That Matter that are outlined in it,” said Superintendent Kirby.
 
The District has a set of Measures that Matter which go beyond test scores; activities such as community service, participation in the arts, music, and sports, and an ongoing quest for learning come to mind when we imagine a Heights graduate who is ready to become a responsible, caring and successful citizen.
 
“We will continue forward, focused on our CH-UH mission: to provide a challenging and engaging education to prepare all our students to become responsible citizens and succeed in college and career,” said Superintendent Kirby.

Building Scores on the 24-25 Report Card

Gap Closing
  • Earning 4 stars, exceeding state standards:
    • Canterbury, Fairfax, Heights High, Roxboro Elementary
  • Earning 3 stars, meeting state standards:
    • Baumgardner, Boulevard, Gearity, Oxford, Noble, Roxboro Middle
Progress
  • Earning 4 stars, exceeding state standards: 
    • Baumgardner, Heights High
  • Earning 3 stars, meeting state standards: 
    • Boulevard, Fairfax, Gearity, Noble, Roxboro Elementary
Achievement
  • Earning 4 stars, exceeding state standards:
    • Canterbury, Roxboro Elementary
  • Earning 3 stars, meeting state standards: 
    • Boulevard, Fairfax, Noble
Early Literacy
  • Earning 4 stars, exceeding state standards:
    • Canterbury
  • Earning 3 stars, meeting state standards: 
    • Fairfax, Roxboro Elementary
Graduation
  • Earning 3 stars, meeting state standards: 
    • Heights High
College, Career, Workforce and Military Readiness
  • Earning 3 stars, meeting state standards: 
    • Heights High

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