Wilbur Wright School

The public elementary school Wilbur Wright School is located in Cleveland, Ohio. Enrollment is 521 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 8. The average for elementary schools in Ohio is about 404 students, so this school is 29% bigger than average.

The 93 schools in Cleveland Municipal enroll 33,065 students altogether, Wilbur Wright School among them.

Wilbur Wright School has no majority group; Black students are the largest, at 40%. Other reported shares: 24% Hispanic, 23% White, 8% multiracial, and 4% Asian. That compares with about 29% Black among all Cuyahoga County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 72% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

The school reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 17.4 students per teacher. That matches the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio fairly closely.

Measured against Ohio public elementary schools, Wilbur Wright School receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.

In the county around the school, Cuyahoga County, the median household income is $64,468, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Cuyahoga County is home to 352 public schools and about 155,924 public school students.

The nearest public school is Mary Church Terrell, at about 0.4 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

NCES describes the area around Wilbur Wright School as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment has grown by 46 students since 2020-21, to 521. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 17.4:1, from 14.8:1.

Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.