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Located at 199 S Broadway St, in Akron, Ohio, National Inventors Hall of Fame School Center for STEM is a tight-knit junior high that educates 391 students (grades 5 through 8), run under Akron City.
Akron City comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 20,570 students; National Inventors Hall of Fame School Center for STEM is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, National Inventors Hall of Fame School Center for STEM shows that the largest single group is Black at 36%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 32% White, 17% Asian, 10% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.
Across the wider county, Summit County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,622 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. National Inventors Hall of Fame School Center for STEM is one of 149 public schools in Summit County (combined enrollment of about 69,214 students).
Nearest neighbor: Akron Early College High School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around National Inventors Hall of Fame School Center for STEM.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at National Inventors Hall of Fame School Center for STEM has held roughly steady, going from 388 students in 2018 to 391 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share expanded from 5% to 17%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 today.
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