Kensington Intermediate Elementary School

Located at 20140 Lake Rd, in Rocky River, Ohio, Kensington Intermediate Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary school that serves 586 students (grades 3 through 5), part of Rocky River City. That puts it 45% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Rocky River City comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,606 students; Kensington Intermediate Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kensington Intermediate Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%). Other groups include 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the resource side, On paper, Kensington Intermediate Elementary School has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.0:1. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Cuyahoga County's rate of about 27%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kensington Intermediate Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 83.0%; Kensington Intermediate Elementary School posts 95.1%, +12.1 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cuyahoga County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $64,468 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Cuyahoga County's 352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students), Kensington Intermediate Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Rocky River Early Childhood Center at Beach School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kensington Intermediate Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kensington Intermediate Elementary School at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 84.5%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 3%: 606 students in 2018 compared to 586 in 2025.

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