Taft Center for Innovation

Taft Center for Innovation, a very small elementary school in Lakewood, Ohio, one of the schools within Lakewood City, teaches 34 students, covering grade pre-K. That puts it 92% smaller than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Within Lakewood City, which oversees 13 schools and 4,369 students, Taft Center for Innovation is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Taft Center for Innovation lists that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 12% multiracial, 6% Black, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Cuyahoga County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Around the school, census data for Cuyahoga County shows median household earnings sit near $64,468, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Taft Center for Innovation is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).

Emerson Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Taft Center for Innovation.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Taft Center for Innovation community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Members of the school community can share what they know.