Pinnacle Academy

Pinnacle Academy is one of the large elementary schools in Euclid, Ohio, part of Pinnacle Academy, with 761 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Pinnacle Academy sits 88% larger than that benchmark.

Operationally, Pinnacle Academy answers to Pinnacle Academy, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

In terms of who attends, Pinnacle Academy records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (84%). The remainder consists of 12% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

Around the school, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Cuyahoga County's 352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students), Pinnacle Academy is one campus in the mix.

Euclid Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pinnacle Academy.

The campus sits in a residential setting. As a public charter, Pinnacle Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Pinnacle Academy's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 752 (now 761). Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 94% to 84%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 in 2025.

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