Memorial School

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in Cleveland, Ohio, Memorial School serves 375 students from grades pre-K through 8, operated by Cleveland Municipal.

Within Cleveland Municipal, which oversees 93 schools and 33,065 students, Memorial School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Memorial School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (93%); the rest comes out to 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Cuyahoga County as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Memorial School reports 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cuyahoga County indicate median household earnings sit near $64,468, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Memorial School is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ginn Academy, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Memorial School.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Memorial School's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 421 (now 375). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 0% to 5% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

On this page, members of the Memorial School community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.