Alfred Benesch

Alfred Benesch is one of the modestly sized elementary schools in Cleveland, Ohio, operated by Cleveland Municipal, with 214 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 47% below the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Within Cleveland Municipal, which oversees 93 schools and 33,065 students, Alfred Benesch is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Alfred Benesch reports that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest consists of 4% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

In the area at large, Cuyahoga County reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,468 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Alfred Benesch is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).

Nearest neighbor: East Technical High School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Alfred Benesch's enrollment has fell 29% since 2018, when it stood at 302 (now 214). Black enrollment moved from 97% to 93% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Alfred Benesch community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.