Hayes Elementary School

Located at 16401 Delaware Ave, in Lakewood, Ohio, Hayes Elementary School is a tight-knit K-5 school that caters to 292 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Lakewood City. That puts it 28% smaller than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Lakewood City runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 4,369 students. Hayes Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Hayes Elementary School shows that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 13% multiracial, 2% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 58% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Hayes Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 77.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 82.6%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Cuyahoga County) reports that 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%. In all, Cuyahoga County runs 352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students), of which Hayes Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Harding Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hayes Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hayes Elementary School at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 81.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Hayes Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 22% since 2018, when it stood at 373 (now 292). Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 8% to 2%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

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