Garfield Preschool

Garfield Preschool is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Mentor, Ohio. Its enrollment is 124 students, spread over pre-K. That compares with an average of about 404 students for elementary schools in Ohio.

Mentor Exempted Village is the local district for Garfield Preschool. It runs 13 schools with 6,896 students.

The share of students at Garfield Preschool who are White is 85%. Smaller groups are 5% Black, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Lake County residents are about 86% White, a similar share. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 28%.

Staffing at Garfield Preschool comes to 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.5:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Ohio is 17.9:1.

In Lake County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $80,925, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 32%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. There are 65 public schools in the county, enrolling about 27,899, Garfield Preschool among them.

Memorial Middle School is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Garfield Preschool, there are at least 8 other public schools.

The NCES locale for Garfield Preschool is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Federal enrollment counts increased from 120 (2020-21) to 124 (2024-25). Students per teacher dropped from 30.0 in 2020-21 to 15.5 in 2024-25.

This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Garfield Preschool. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.