Garfield Heights High School

As an expansive high school in Garfield Heights, Ohio, Garfield Heights High School serves 942 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Garfield Heights City Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 67% bigger than the state mean of about 565.

Garfield Heights City Schools comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,581 students; Garfield Heights High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Garfield Heights High School shows that nearly all students (83%) are Black. Other groups include 8% multiracial, 8% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

On the resource side, Garfield Heights High School reports 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.7:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Cuyahoga County) records that the typical household earns roughly $64,468 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Garfield Heights High School is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).

North Shore High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Garfield Heights High School.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 24%: 1,247 students in 2018 compared to 942 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment climbed from 70% to 83% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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