Lewis F Mayer Middle School

Lewis F Mayer Middle School is one of the cozy 6-8 campuss in Fairview Park, Ohio, part of Fairview Park City, with 314 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 35% below the state mean of about 482.

Within Fairview Park City, which oversees 4 schools and 1,471 students, Lewis F Mayer Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Lewis F Mayer Middle School records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 6% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 58% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Lewis F Mayer Middle School records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Lewis F Mayer Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lewis F Mayer Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.2%, the actual is 76.0%, a residual of -3.2 points.

In the area at large, 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%. Lewis F Mayer Middle School is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).

Fairview High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lewis F Mayer Middle School.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 24%: 414 students in 2018 compared to 314 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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