Lakewood High School

Lakewood High School is one of the heavily attended senior highs in Lakewood, Ohio, one of the schools within Lakewood City, with 1,372 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 565 students each, so Lakewood High School sits 143% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 13 schools in Lakewood City (4,369 students total), Lakewood High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lakewood High School reports that White students make up the majority at 73%. Beyond that, the school shows 13% multiracial, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the resource side, On paper, Lakewood High School has 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 40% of students at Lakewood High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cuyahoga County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Lakewood High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.6%, the actual is 73.7%, a residual of +0.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Cuyahoga County put the typical household earns roughly $64,468 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Lakewood High School is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).

Franklin School of Opportunity Online 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. On composite proficiency, Lakewood High School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 75.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lakewood High School has contracted 11%, going from 1,543 students in 2018 to 1,372 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.