Enrollment
396
Elementary
DISTRICT 413 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHAKER HEIGHTS CITY·NCES 390447501613
Mercer Elementary School
23325 Wimbledon Rd, Shaker Heights, OH 44122 · (216) 295-4070 · Cuyahoga County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL396 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 15% of Ohio public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
149 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 43%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 72 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 14% larger than its 5th grade class (63).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Shaker Heights City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
68.2%
OH avg 59.8% . -1.1pp since 2021
Math
54.3%
OH avg 56.1% . -5.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 5 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.2% | 54.3% |
| 2023-24 | 69.5% | 52.2% |
| 2022-23 | 60.4% | 55.3% |
| 2021-22 | 69.3% | 59.8% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of OH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
60.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.6%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 75% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mercer Elementary School
Mercer Elementary School's state test result (60.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercer Elementary School this school | 396 | 37.6% | 60.8% |
| Fernway Elementary School Shaker Heights | 326 | 31.6% | 75.1% |
| Onaway Elementary School Shaker Heights | 462 | 28.1% | 75.2% |
| Evendale Elementary School Cincinnati | 232 | 40.5% | 74.3% |
| Lomond Elementary School Shaker Heights | 467 | 30.6% | 62.8% |
| Edison Elementary School Willoughby | 543 | 46.0% | 64.0% |
Matched among Ohio elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mercer Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Cuyahoga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.8% | #594 of 673 | #36 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #1,018 of 1,569 ▼ 1 | #70 of 172 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.2% | #652 of 1,569 ▲ 50 | #50 of 172 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.3pp | #243 of 1,514 | #20 of 167 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 396 | #843 of 1,808 | #69 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.9:1 | #1,071 of 1,582 | #116 of 158 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.4% | #344 of 1,590 | #44 of 158 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.6% | #422 of 767 | #8 of 42 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +15.8% | #223 of 561 | #27 of 64 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
396
+98 (+33%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 446
Student : Teacher
18.9:1
was 14.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 396 | 21 | 18.9:1 | 38% (149) |
| 2023-24 | 309 | 22 | 14.1:1 | 29% (89) |
| 2022-23 | 307 | 22 | 13.9:1 | 27% (84) |
| 2020-21 | 298 | 21 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 342 | 21 | 16.3:1 | 24% (82) |
| 2015-16 | 338 | 23 | 14.7:1 | 33% (110) |
| 2010-11 | 411 | 25 | 16.4:1 | 33% (137) |
| 2000-01 | 420 | 32 | 13.1:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 446 | 32 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mercer Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 16% (342 to 396); teachers unchanged (21 to 21).
About Mercer Elementary School
Mercer Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Ohio, with an address in Shaker Heights. There are 396 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 5.
Shaker Heights City has 4,650 students spread across 7 schools.
White students account for 46% of enrollment at Mercer Elementary School, more than any other group. Smaller groups are 40% Black, 8% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. County-wide, 58% of Cuyahoga County residents are White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 61%.
Its staff includes 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 18.9 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Ohio, 17.9:1, is lower. Mercer Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 38%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Cuyahoga County is 27%.
Mercer Elementary School earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 15% of Ohio public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Mercer Elementary School posts 60.8% against a 74.6% prediction, a bottom-10% result in Ohio.
The school is in Cuyahoga County, where the median household earns about $64,468 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Across Cuyahoga County, 352 public schools serve about 155,924 students.
A public school about 0.8 miles away, Beachwood Middle School, is the closest to Mercer Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The school's 60.8% average proficiency ranks 5th among 5 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Mercer Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 33%, from 298 to 396. The number of students per teacher increased from 14.2 to 18.9 over 4 years.
The discussion board for Mercer Elementary School is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Cuyahoga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,245,873
Census ACS
Median income
$64,468
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
352
155,924 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Shaker Heights City
- Shaker Hts High SchoolHigh · 1,418 students
- Shaker Hts Middle SchoolMiddle · 939 students
- Woodbury Elementary SchoolMiddle · 642 students
- Lomond Elementary SchoolElementary · 467 students
- Onaway Elementary SchoolElementary · 462 students
- Fernway Elementary SchoolElementary · 326 students
Other schools in Shaker Heights
- Shaker Hts High SchoolHigh · 1,418 students
- Shaker Hts Middle SchoolMiddle · 939 students
- Woodbury Elementary SchoolMiddle · 642 students
- Lomond Elementary SchoolElementary · 467 students
- Onaway Elementary SchoolElementary · 462 students
- Fernway Elementary SchoolElementary · 326 students
Other Mercer Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Mercer Elementary. Mercer Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Mercer Elementary SchoolCincinnati, OH · 611 students
- Mercer ElementaryPrinceton, WV · 258 students
- Mercer Elementary SchoolHamilton, NJ · 141 students
Nearby schools
- Beachwood Middle School0.8 mi · 327
- Bryden Elementary School0.9 mi · 260
- Beachwood High School0.9 mi · 620
- Shaker Hts Middle School0.9 mi · 939
- Fairmount Early Childhood Center0.9 mi · 76
- Gearity Professional Development School1.5 mi · 390
Frequently asked questions
About Mercer Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Mercer Elementary School?
Mercer Elementary School enrolls approximately 396 students in grades KG-05.
Is Mercer Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mercer Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Mercer Elementary School have?
Mercer Elementary School employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.9:1.
How diverse is Mercer Elementary School?
Mercer Elementary School reports a student body of 46% White, 4% Hispanic, 40% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Mercer Elementary School public or private?
Mercer Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Shaker Heights City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.