Birch Primary School

Set in North Olmsted, Ohio, Birch Primary School is a moderately sized elementary-level community, run under North Olmsted City. It teaches 345 students across grades pre-K through K.

Birch Primary School is one of 6 schools operated by North Olmsted City, a district that works with 3,539 students overall.

Demographically, Birch Primary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Cuyahoga County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Birch Primary School shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

In the area at large, Cuyahoga County reports that median household income runs about $64,468, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Cuyahoga County runs 352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students), of which Birch Primary School is one.

Maple Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Birch Primary School.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 362 students in 2018 compared to 345 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 82% to 72% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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