Taft Center for Innovation

Taft Center for Innovation operates as a very small elementary school in Lakewood, Ohio. It reports enrollment of 34 students in pre-K. The school is 92% below the average for elementary schools in Ohio.

Lakewood City enrolls 4,369 students, and its 13 schools include Taft Center for Innovation.

Of every 100 students at Taft Center for Innovation, about 79 are White. The rest of enrollment is 12% multiracial, 6% Black, and 3% Hispanic. Among all residents of Cuyahoga County, the White share is about 58%.

The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 21%.

The school is in Cuyahoga County, where median household income comes to about $64,468, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cuyahoga County's 352 public schools enroll about 155,924 students and include Taft Center for Innovation.

The closest school to Taft Center for Innovation is Emerson Elementary School, located about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Taft Center for Innovation.

NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

The school counted 21 students in 2020-21 and 34 in 2024-25. A shift in the grades offered could account for part of the difference.

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