Cascade Career Prep High School

Cascade Career Prep High School is a four-year high school of rural-scale scale in Akron, Ohio, overseen by Cascade Career Prep High School, hosting 102 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 82% smaller than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 565 students.

Cascade Career Prep High School sits inside Cascade Career Prep High School, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Cascade Career Prep High School lists that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment; the rest reads as 23% White, 15% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.7:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Summit County) reports that median household earnings sit near $71,622, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Cascade Career Prep High School is one of 149 public schools in Summit County (combined enrollment of about 69,214 students).

Nearest neighbor: Steel Academy, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cascade Career Prep High School.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. Cascade Career Prep High School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Cascade Career Prep High School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 104 (now 102). White enrollment moved from 58% to 23% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.