NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Cleveland Heights, OH

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11 public K-12 schools in Cleveland Heights from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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11
Schools
4,939
Students
36.5/100
Avg Resource Index
15.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Cleveland Heights has more public-school enrollment than 55% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Cleveland Heights sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Cleveland Heights's list includes 5 elementary, 2 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 3 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 27-point gap between Canterbury Elementary School and Caledonia Elementary School shows the range hidden by Cleveland Heights's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 45%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
31st percentile
Teacher staffing
44th percentile

Cleveland Heights High School accounts for 34.8% of all Cleveland Heights public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Cleveland Heights-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Cleveland Heights school enrollment varies 26× across entities

Cleveland Heights school enrollment ranges from 65 students (lowest) to 1,717 students (highest), a spread of 1,652 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Cleveland Heights student-teacher ratio is 15.9:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Cleveland Heights is typically wider than the Cleveland Heights-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Canterbury Elementary School 45
2. Roxboro Elementary School 44
3. Roxboro Middle School 42
4. Monticello Middle School 42
5. Fairfax Elementary School 40
6. Boulevard Elementary School 39
7. Oxford Elementary School 37
8. Tiger Virtual Academy 35
9. Cleveland Heights High School 31
10. Noble Elementary School 29
11. Caledonia Elementary School 18

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Cleveland Heights

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Roxboro Elementary School 65.5/100
  2. 2 Canterbury Elementary School 62.5/100
  3. 3 Fairfax Elementary School 53.6/100
  4. 4 Roxboro Middle School 52.8/100
  5. 5 Boulevard Elementary School 50.3/100

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Which Cleveland Heights school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Canterbury Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Cleveland Heights schools in this federal-data comparison at 45/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Cleveland Heights, OH? ▼

Cleveland Heights has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,939 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.9:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.