Sheridan High School

Thirty-four years later it is a four-star building with a Performance Index of 89.9, against a state where the highest exemplar here reaches 105.9 and the lowest 36.8. verified report-card-2425-buildings.csv It is neither failing nor comfortable, which is a more useful fact than either would have been.

And a quarter of its students are chronically absent — 25.9% in 2024-25, against 2.5% at Barrington Road in Upper Arlington. verified Chronic absenteeism is not decoration here: under Ohio’s ESSA plan it is the criterion that decides CSI identification for buildings with fewer than three rated components. Sheridan has enough rated components that the overall rating governs instead, so the figure carries no consequence for this building and would for a smaller one. Whether the rate reflects poverty, distance, or something the corpus cannot see is not established. open

It is a Comprehensive Support and Improvement school # ↑ Contents

Sheridan is on the federal identification list: ATSI 2022, escalated to CSI 2025. verified dispersion::identified, pinned by test

The building Ohio’s constitutional litigation is named for is federally identified as one of the state’s schools needing comprehensive support, thirty-four years after the case was filed on behalf of a student who attended it.

The route matters and is easy to lose. Sheridan did not arrive here by performing in the lowest 5% — a four-star building with a Performance Index of 89.9 plainly did not. It was identified as ATSI in 2022, meaning one or more student subgroups performed at or below the CSI identification threshold, and it did not exit within three years. Ohio’s plan escalates such schools to CSI automatically. Forty-two of the 231 CSI schools arrived this way. verified

What this repository computed # ↑ Contents

Not what Ohio publishes. Figures derived here from committed fixtures, each one citing the test that reproduces it.

It is the first school node in this corpus, and it is here because it closes a loop. The corpus has held Northern Local as an exemplar since genesis — the DeRolph origin district, rural and property-poor — and could not name the building. The funding side never needed to. The accountability side works at this grain, and the first thing it makes sayable is what happened to the school the case was brought for.

So the whole-school numbers on this node and its accountability status are not in tension: they are measuring different things. A building can be comfortably mid-distribution overall and carry a subgroup that is not, and the federal system is built to surface exactly that. Which subgroup is not published on the CSI list — it appears on the ATSI list, which carries subgroup columns, and Sheridan’s 2022 ATSI row is not in the current file because the department republishes each list in place rather than archiving cycles. open

It is the top of the band, and the band is most of the state # ↑ Contents

Sheridan’s 89.9 is the highest Performance Index on the Comprehensive Support list, so this building marks one edge of the range inside which the published rating stops predicting membership. The other edge is 30.3, the lowest index on none of the three lists, and 1,958 of the 3,151 rated buildings sit between them. verified crates/dispersion

That the escalation route reaches this far up is not an artifact of one school. All 42 escalations were checked against the same rank order, and every one of the 11 CSI schools rated three stars or better arrived this way — not one of the 189 direct identifications did, and the highest-ranked escalation sits above the state median. verified The route is a second population inside one tier, and Sheridan is its clearest case rather than its exception.

It serves ninth through twelfth grade, with the district’s sixth to eighth grades in a separate Sheridan Middle School. verified Ohio School Report Cards building record, 2024-25, span “9-12”; edchoice-designated-2425.csv, which gives the same span on the 2024-25, 2025-26 and 2026-27 lists