NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Lakewood, OH

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

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12
Schools
4,310
Students
51.1/100
Avg Resource Index
15.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lakewood has more public-school enrollment than 48% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lakewood 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

7 of Lakewood's 12 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Lakewood's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 89th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 50-point gap between Franklin School of Opportunity Online and Taft Center for Innovation measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 52%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
89th percentile
Teacher staffing
45th percentile

Lakewood High School accounts for 31.8% of all Lakewood public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Lakewood-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

Lakewood school enrollment varies 40× across entities

Lakewood school enrollment ranges from 34 students (lowest) to 1,372 students (highest), a spread of 1,338 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Lakewood operates one school district — a single-district system

Lakewood's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Lakewood student-teacher ratio is 15.8:1 — 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 Lakewood is typically wider than the Lakewood-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Franklin School of Opportunity Online 80
2. Hayes Elementary School 58
3. Grant Elementary School 57
4. Horace Mann Elementary School 56
5. Harrison Elementary School 56
6. Emerson Elementary School 50
7. Lincoln Elementary School 50
8. Roosevelt Elementary School 50
9. Harding Middle School 46
10. Lakewood High School 40
11. Garfield Middle School 40
12. Taft Center for Innovation 30

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Lakewood

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 Harrison Elementary School 63.9/100
  2. 2 Garfield Middle School 53.6/100
  3. 3 Franklin School of Opportunity Online 53.5/100
  4. 4 Emerson Elementary School 45.4/100
  5. 5 Lakewood High School 44.6/100

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Which Lakewood school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Franklin School of Opportunity Online has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lakewood schools in this federal-data comparison at 80/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Lakewood, OH? ▼

Lakewood has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,310 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15.8:1.

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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.