Canterbury Elementary School

Set in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Canterbury Elementary School is an intimate elementary campus, one of the schools within Cleveland Heights-University Heights City. It hosts 311 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 23% leaner than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Cleveland Heights-University Heights City runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 5,063 students. Canterbury Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Canterbury Elementary School shows that 53% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 29% White, 10% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 29% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Canterbury Elementary School shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Canterbury Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Cuyahoga County shows median household earnings sit near $64,468, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cuyahoga County runs 352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students), of which Canterbury Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Fairfax Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 20%: 389 students in 2018 compared to 311 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 62% to 53%.

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