Original Research by School Decision on Ohio Construction Academy
Ohio Construction Academy is a small charter district in Franklin County serving high school students in grades nine through twelve. The enrollment is modest, with students distributed across the four grades, a larger proportion in the senior class.
The student body is predominantly Black, with smaller shares of white students and other racial and ethnic backgrounds represented. The academy does not report free-or-reduced-price lunch data, and information about students receiving special education services or learning English as an additional language was not available.
State assessment results for the academy were not available in the data reviewed. Without those figures, a clear picture of academic proficiency across subjects and grades cannot be drawn here. A parent interested in how Ohio Construction Academy's students perform on Ohio's state assessments would benefit from contacting the school directly or consulting the school's own reporting.
The four-year graduation rate also was not reported in the available data. That metric is a significant measure of high school success, and its absence here means an important dimension of student outcomes remains unclear from this review. Again, the academy itself would be the place to ask.
One attendance measure did surface: chronic absenteeism rates. Ohio Construction Academy's rate places it in the bottom quartile among Franklin County's districts, meaning attendance is notably below the county median. Chronic absenteeism often signals barriers to school engagement, transportation challenges, competing responsibilities, or other pressures on students. A parent considering this academy would want to understand the drivers of absenteeism here and what supports or structures exist to help students attend consistently.
Per-pupil spending at the academy falls in the upper-middle range for county districts, suggesting the school invests resources at a level comparable to many of its neighbors.
The academy itself is a charter school, a choice-based enrollment model separate from traditional district boundaries. No recent district-wide changes, referenda, or curriculum shifts meeting a lasting parent-relevant impact threshold were found in recent public reporting. Because this is a single-school charter district rather than a multi-school system, the scope of district-level action is narrower than in larger districts.
For a parent evaluating Ohio Construction Academy, the central gap is the absence of proficiency and graduation data, which are the primary academic outcome measures available for high schools statewide. The high chronic absenteeism rate is a concrete signal worth exploring further with school staff. The modest enrollment and high school focus position this as a small, specialized pathway, likely with a particular mission or instructional emphasis. A conversation with school leadership about that mission, the nature of the student support available, and how the school addresses attendance would ground a decision beyond what this data summary alone can show.
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