The reported proficiency rate for Math is 100%.
Original Research by School Decision on Normandy Elementary School
Normandy Elementary School is a small early-grades school serving kindergarten through second grade in the affluent, highly residential suburb of Bay Village on Lake Erie's south shore. The school enrolls about 500 students across three grades, with roughly ten percent qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. Student composition is predominantly white, with modest diversity: a small share Asian, a smaller share Hispanic or Black, and a small share multiracial. Enrollment data on students with disabilities and English learners was not available.
The school sits within the Bay Village City School District, where voters approved a significant continuing permanent improvement levy in May 2025 that generates substantial annual revenue for building improvements, technology, textbooks, and transportation without raising overall taxes. The district is consolidating previous bond obligations into this long-term funding structure and targeting improvements across five schools. This is the kind of infrastructure stability that families often consider when choosing where to live and attend school.
Bay Village itself is built-out and almost entirely residential, with tree-lined streets of craftsman, Cape Cod, Tudor, and colonial homes, plus lakeshore estates. The city is car-dependent at the city scale but walkable within neighborhoods, with schools on their own campuses embedded in the residential fabric. Families have strong access to parks including four city parks and the Cleveland Metroparks Huntington Reservation with its beach, nature center, and arts venues. A new county library branch is under construction adjacent to City Hall. Median home values are moderately high and appreciate at a steady pace; monthly rent is also moderately high. Most residents commute to jobs elsewhere in the Cleveland metro. The community is affluent and highly educated.
On academic performance, Normandy has reported state testing data only for third-grade math in 2018-19, the most recent available. That cohort achieved full proficiency, placing the school in the top quartile on overall proficiency among the county's districts. Because Normandy serves grades kindergarten through two, no statewide testing occurs at the school itself; the third-grade result reflects cohort performance after students moved on. State testing data for other grades and subjects were not available, so this single data point is the only proficiency snapshot on record. A parent may want to ask the school and district directly about assessment practices in the early grades, what internal measures they use to track learning, and how students have fared in the grades immediately after leaving Normandy. Graduation rate and chronic absenteeism data do not apply because the school serves only early grades.
The school's peer environment reflects Bay Village's residential stability and affluence. The student population is mostly white and affluent by standard measures, with low free-lunch rates and steady enrollment. Normandy's grade-by-grade enrollment across K-2 is fairly balanced and consistent in size. Program offerings and staffing details were not available.
This is a small, stable early-grades school in an affluent, built-out bedroom community with substantial civic and recreational anchors and a housing market that is appreciating at a steady clip. It serves a population that is predominantly white and affluent. For a family in or relocating to Bay Village's price range and residential character, Normandy is the neighborhood choice for kindergarten through second grade before students feed into Westerly Elementary for grades three and four, then Bay Middle and Bay High.
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