Harvey High School

Harvey High School, a reasonably sized senior high in Painesville, Ohio, operated by Painesville City Local, hosts 847 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 50% bigger than the state mean of about 565.

Painesville City Local runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,735 students. Harvey High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Harvey High School reports that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 16% White, 15% Black, 8% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 5%.

On the resource side, On paper, Harvey High School has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.8:1. The state averages around 17.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, Lake County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,925, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Lake County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,899 students), Harvey High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Heritage Middle School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Harvey High School has held roughly steady, going from 828 students in 2018 to 847 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 50% to 61% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

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