Chapman Elementary School

Chapman Elementary School is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in Strongsville, Ohio, part of Strongsville City, with 446 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Strongsville City runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,757 students. Chapman Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Chapman Elementary School logs that 79% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Cuyahoga County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Roughly 25% of students at Chapman Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Chapman Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.4%, the actual is 81.3%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cuyahoga County indicate median household earnings sit near $64,468, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Cuyahoga County's 352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students), Chapman Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Crestview Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chapman Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 81.2%.

Chapman Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chapman Elementary School has expanded 44%, going from 310 students in 2018 to 446 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 79% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.

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