Charles Dickens School

Charles Dickens School operates as a small primary school in Cleveland, Ohio, operated by Cleveland Municipal. Current enrollment sits at 253 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Charles Dickens School sits 37% smaller than that benchmark.

Cleveland Municipal comprises 93 schools with combined enrollment of 33,065 students; Charles Dickens School is among them.

Demographically, Charles Dickens School records that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Cuyahoga County as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Charles Dickens School records 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 28.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Cuyahoga County) records 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%. Charles Dickens School is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).

Southern Cleveland Drop Back Indba Innovative Career Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Charles Dickens School.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 39%: 413 students in 2018 compared to 253 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 28.1:1 today.

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