Garfield Elementary School

Set in Cleveland, Ohio, Garfield Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary school, one of the schools within Cleveland Municipal. It teaches 536 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Garfield Elementary School sits 33% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Cleveland Municipal, which oversees 93 schools and 33,065 students, Garfield Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Garfield Elementary School records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (30%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 29% Black, 24% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Garfield Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, census data for Cuyahoga County shows the typical household earns roughly $64,468 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Cuyahoga County runs 352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students), of which Garfield Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is John Marshall School of Information Technology, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 597 students in 2018 compared to 536 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 33% to 24% over that span.

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