Garfield Middle School

Set in Lakewood, Ohio, Garfield Middle School is a mid-tier 6-8 campus, operated by Lakewood City. It teaches 457 students across grades 6 through 8.

Within Lakewood City, which oversees 13 schools and 4,369 students, Garfield Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Garfield Middle School shows that 66% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 14% multiracial, 10% Black, 6% Asian, 4% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, Garfield Middle School reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Roughly 57% of students at Garfield Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cuyahoga County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Garfield Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.3%, the actual is 65.9%, a residual of -1.4 points.

Across the wider county, Cuyahoga County reports that median household income runs about $64,468, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Garfield Middle School is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).

Nearest neighbor: Emerson Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Garfield Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 71.4%.

Garfield Middle School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Garfield Middle School's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 538 (now 457). Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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