The top reported proficiency rate is 90% in Social studies. The lowest is 57% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Crestwood Intermediate School
Crestwood Intermediate School serves grades four through six in Mantua, a small village in northern Portage County, Ohio, along the Cuyahoga River. The school sits in township territory just outside Mantua's historic downtown, on a campus that also houses the district's primary school. It draws from a stable, modestly affluent suburban-rural residential community with a notable older housing stock and a mixed white-and blue-collar workforce; many parents work in the Akron metropolitan area.
The school's academic profile shows strength in science, where roughly three in four students tested met state proficiency. English language arts results are solid, with about two in three students proficient. Mathematics is the softer area, with roughly half the students meeting proficiency. Across all tested subjects, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile among Portage County school districts. The data reflect performance in the most recent testing year; earlier trends are not available in comparable form.
Enrollment is small, at about the size typical for an intermediate school in a township district. A little over two in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a measure of economic need that sits modestly above the national average. The student body is predominantly white, with small representation across other racial and ethnic groups. Special education and English learner enrollment data were not provided in available records.
The district has made structural choices that shape daily life here. In 2021-22, the district reconfigured its grade spans: Crestwood Intermediate now serves grades four through six instead of the traditional five through six, and grades seven and eight moved into a wing of the high school. That shift reshaped pickup and dropoff routines and which building houses which grade. On the financial side, voters renewed a long-standing emergency operating levy in 2023, a four-year renewal that sustains technology, bus service, building maintenance, and curriculum work without new tax burden to homeowners. At the end of 2022, the district's residential property tax decreased as elementary school bonds were paid off, a permanent reduction families would see on their tax bills.
Mantua itself is anchored by civic investment in outdoor recreation: Buchert Memorial Park sits along the Cuyahoga River with picnic areas and a pedestrian footbridge completed in recent years, and the Headwaters Trail, an eight-mile crushed-limestone path on a former railroad line, connects the village to Garrettsville and converges here with the Buckeye Trail. The village hosts a small walkable downtown with locally owned shops and cafes, and a calendar of seasonal events. Most residents own their homes. Growth has been stable, with modest new single-family construction and a manufactured-housing community anchoring the local market. The village sits just off Interstate 80 on State Route 44, convenient to the Akron area but without fixed-route public transit.
A parent considering this school would be looking at an academically sound, small intermediate school in a stable, economically diverse community where science stands out but math merits a closer look during the transition to middle grades. The school's fiscal stability is clear, and the setting offers both outdoor amenities and a short commute to larger employment centers.
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