Lake Erie College Preparatory School

Lake Erie College Preparatory School, an intimate K-5 school in Cleveland, Ohio, operated by Lake Erie College Preparatory School, serves 291 students, covering grades K through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Lake Erie College Preparatory School sits 28% smaller than that benchmark.

Lake Erie College Preparatory School is a school of Lake Erie College Preparatory School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Lake Erie College Preparatory School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (94%); the rest is composed of 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Cuyahoga County as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely.

In the surrounding community, census data for Cuyahoga County shows median household income runs about $64,468, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Cuyahoga County's 352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students), Lake Erie College Preparatory School is one campus in the mix.

East Clark is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. As a public charter, Lake Erie College Preparatory School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lake Erie College Preparatory School has edged up 21%, going from 241 students in 2018 to 291 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.