Dover Intermediate School

Dover Intermediate School is one of the reasonably sized intermediate schools in Westlake, Ohio, one of the schools within Westlake City, with 471 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 6.

Dover Intermediate School is one of 4 schools operated by Westlake City, a district that serves 3,176 students overall.

On demographics, Dover Intermediate School reports that 76% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 8% multiracial, 8% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 2% Black. By comparison, Cuyahoga County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dover Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.1%, the actual is 84.9%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Across the wider county, Cuyahoga County reports 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 Dover Intermediate School is one.

The closest other public school is Lee Burneson Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dover Intermediate School at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 84.1%.

Dover Intermediate School operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dover Intermediate School has shrank 9%, going from 519 students in 2018 to 471 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 83% to 76% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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