Mayfield Middle School

Mayfield Middle School is a sprawling 6-8 campus in Cleveland, Ohio, operated by Mayfield City. The school hosts 896 students in grades 6 through 9. Enrollment runs roughly 86% above the state mean of about 482.

Mayfield Middle School is one of 7 schools operated by Mayfield City, a district that instructs 4,208 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Mayfield Middle School records that 56% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 20% Black, 9% Asian, 7% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Mayfield Middle School logs 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Mayfield Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.0%, the actual is 74.0%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Cuyahoga County shows median household earnings sit near $64,468, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Mayfield Middle School is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).

The closest other public school is Mayfield Center Elementary School, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mayfield Middle School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 82.5%.

Mayfield Middle School operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 913 students in 2018 compared to 896 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 69% to 56% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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