Longfellow Elementary School

Longfellow Elementary School is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in Eastlake, Ohio, run under Willoughby-Eastlake City, hosting 432 students in grades K through 5.

Willoughby-Eastlake City runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 6,861 students. Longfellow Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Longfellow Elementary School records that 69% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 14% Black, 11% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lake County (around 39%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Longfellow Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.8%, the actual is 60.6%, a residual of -5.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Lake County shows median household income runs about $80,925, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Longfellow Elementary School is one of 65 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 27,899 students).

The closest other public school is North High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Longfellow Elementary School at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 54.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 13%: 497 students in 2018 compared to 432 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 80% to 69% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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