Lee Burneson Middle School

Lee Burneson Middle School is one of the mid-sized 6-8 campuss in Westlake, Ohio, overseen by Westlake City, with 501 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8.

Within Westlake City, which oversees 4 schools and 3,176 students, Lee Burneson Middle School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Lee Burneson Middle School logs that 74% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian, 4% Black. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 58%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Roughly 24% of students at Lee Burneson Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lee Burneson Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.7%, the actual is 81.1%, a residual of +1.4 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cuyahoga County indicate median household earnings sit near $64,468, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Cuyahoga County runs 352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students), of which Lee Burneson Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Dover Intermediate School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lee Burneson Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 85.1%.

Lee Burneson Middle School operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 566 students in 2018 compared to 501 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 83% to 74% over that span.

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