Citizens Academy Southeast

Citizens Academy Southeast is one of the expansive elementary campuss in Cleveland, Ohio, operated by Citizens Academy Southeast, with 667 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 65% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Citizens Academy Southeast is a school of Citizens Academy Southeast, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Citizens Academy Southeast shows that nearly all students (97%) are Black. By comparison, Cuyahoga County as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cuyahoga County) logs that median household earnings sit near $64,468, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Cuyahoga County runs 352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students), of which Citizens Academy Southeast is one.

The closest other public school is John F Kennedy High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Citizens Academy Southeast.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. Citizens Academy Southeast is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Citizens Academy Southeast has climbed 92%, going from 347 students in 2018 to 667 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the Citizens Academy Southeast community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.