Kelleys Island High School, Kelleys Island OH

Original Research by School Decision on Kelleys Island High School

Kelleys Island High School serves grades one through eight on Kelleys Island, a small Lake Erie island village dominated by seasonal tourism. The school is tiny, with an enrollment of only about a handful of students spread across the grade band. The 2023-24 state test results reflect this scale: only a few students per grade were tested, making year-to-year comparisons difficult and individual student performance more visible in the aggregate numbers.

In English language arts, the school showed strong performance. Students in grades four, five, seven, and eight all reached proficiency. Grade five and eight students who tested were all proficient, as were the single students tested in grades four and seven. The grade-four results represent one student at proficient level.

Mathematics results were mixed. Grade four showed no proficiency among the one student tested. Grade five had one student proficient out of two tested. Grades seven and eight both showed full proficiency, with the single grade-seven student and both grade-eight students meeting state standards. This variation across grades suggests uneven skill development or potentially reflects the challenges of instruction in a very small school with limited peer interaction.

Science testing was available only for grades five and eight. Both cohorts showed proficiency: all students tested in grade five and both students in grade eight met state standards.

When proficiency results are averaged across all tested subjects and grades, the school's overall performance places it in the top quartile among the districts in Erie County. This positioning reflects the strong language arts and science showings that outweigh the mathematics weakness in fourth grade. A parent may want to look into further with the school how it addresses the grade-four mathematics result and whether the variation across grades reflects instructional differences or student cohort changes.

The student body is entirely white and very small. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data and special-education enrollment counts were not available for this school. Median home values on the island run well above the national average, and the year-round residential population is sparse, making this a community where families are either long-term island residents or drawn by the seasonal economy and summer home market.

The school sits on Division Street in the village center, integrated into the civic fabric rather than isolated on a campus. This placement reflects the island's compact, walkable layout and the reality that civic and educational anchors are strung along a single main road rather than separated by distance.

Because the district is extremely small and enrollment hovers around the level of a single mixed-grade classroom, instruction necessarily blends grades and requires parents to understand that peer cohorts are very limited and that educational models common in larger schools do not apply. High school graduation data and comprehensive course catalogs were not applicable to this entity; state testing data was the primary measure available.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

Not publicly reportedCohort of 1 student · Class of 2021

The federal source does not publish a graduation rate for cohorts this small. The cohort size is shown for context.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

867 schools plotted. 10 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 40%

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▼ 65 pts below state median

Grade 550%

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▲ 9 pts above state median

Grade 7100%

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▲ 82 pts above state median

Grade 8100%

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▲ 100 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 4100%

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▲ 42 pts above state median

Grade 5100%

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▲ 35 pts above state median

Grade 7100%

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▲ 57 pts above state median

Grade 8100%

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▲ 70 pts above state median

Science

Grade 5100%

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▲ 38 pts above state median

Grade 8100%

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▲ 70 pts above state median

This schoolKelleys Island Local, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.