About Garfield Heights City Schools
Garfield Heights City Schools is a public school system serving Cuyahoga County, Ohio, based in Garfield Heights. It serves 2,581 students across 5 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #162 largest of Ohio’s 1004 school systems.
Size and structure
Garfield Heights City Schools enrolls 2,581 students in 5 schools — an average of about 516 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #162 of 1004 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Garfield Heights City Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (2,581 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Garfield Heights City Schools employs about 181 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 14.2:1 — below the Ohio average of about 16.8:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 616.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Ohio funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Garfield Heights City Schools are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Ohio rates districts on the Ohio School Report Cards using a 1-to-5-star system across Achievement, Progress, Gap Closing, Graduation, Early Literacy and College/Career/Workforce Readiness. Look up Garfield Heights City Schools on the Ohio School Report Cards.
Accreditation status
Ohio does not use a private accreditor for its public districts; the state recognizes and holds districts accountable directly through the Department of Education and Workforce and the report-card system, while Cognia accreditation remains voluntary for individual schools. See the Ohio DEW.
Garfield Heights City Schools vs. Ohio
See every Ohio district side by side in the Ohio directory.
Look up Garfield Heights City Schools’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):