Village Preparatory School Cliffs

Village Preparatory School Cliffs is a heavily attended K-5 school in Cleveland, Ohio, run under Village Preparatory School Cliffs. The school caters to 674 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 67% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Village Preparatory School Cliffs is the operating authority for Village Preparatory School Cliffs, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Village Preparatory School Cliffs shows that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest reads as 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Cuyahoga County as a whole is about 29% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cuyahoga County put median household income runs about $64,468, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cuyahoga County runs 352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students), of which Village Preparatory School Cliffs is one.

Nearest neighbor: East Preparatory Academy, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Village Preparatory School Cliffs.

Village Preparatory School Cliffs operates from an urban location. Village Preparatory School Cliffs is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 63%: 414 students in 2018 compared to 674 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 21.6:1 today.

On this page, members of the Village Preparatory School Cliffs community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.