Gilles-Sweet Elementary School

Gilles-Sweet Elementary School is a primary school of big scale in Fairview Park, Ohio, operated by Fairview Park City, serveing 624 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Gilles-Sweet Elementary School sits 54% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 4 schools in Fairview Park City (1,471 students total), Gilles-Sweet Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Gilles-Sweet Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school lists 5% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 58% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Gilles-Sweet Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 26% of students at Gilles-Sweet Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Gilles-Sweet Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.1%, the actual is 82.8%, a residual of +3.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cuyahoga County indicate median household earnings sit near $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%. Gilles-Sweet Elementary School is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).

Lewis F Mayer Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Gilles-Sweet Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 678 (now 624). The White share of enrollment grew from 82% to 90% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Gilles-Sweet Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.