Trutko for Cuyahoga Council
Government Performance, Safety & the Local Economy
Measuring School Costs & Performance
Cuyahoga County has 31 Public School Districts
Cuyahoga Co. Public School Proficiency Test Results
Overall Proficiency Results for 2023-24 School Year Were Not Encouraging
The 2023-24 proficiency test results for the 31 public school districts in Cuyahoga County didn't support community aspirations for a well-trained workforce.
About 56% of the county's 128,000 public school students in 3rd grade to high school were estimated to be proficient while 44% scored below 60. Twelve of the county's 31 districts averaged below 60 on the tests.
For more information, read the PDF. It summarizes results for 31 districts and 309 school buildings.
A Return to "Normal" Public Schools Is Not Enough
(Crain's Cleveland Business, March 7, 2022)
The 2020-21 school year was dismal for public education in Cuyahoga County as schools were buffeted by the COVID pandemic and social and political currents.
Most parents and the public hoped that schools would return to "normal" for the county's 130,000 public school students this year, but even if COVID disruptions fade in spring, the public schools' "normal" performance fails to prepare many students for the future and handicaps Cuyahoga County's economic growth.
Cuyahoga SD Teachers' Salaries Vs Ohio Medians
The ODE provides data on teachers' salaries, backgrounds and evaluations over 600 public school districts.
In 2019, the median salaries for the 31 Cuyahoga County public school districts was $76,176, compared to $58,465 for other state districts. Other data was similar but more Cuyahoga teachers had MA degrees than in other Ohio districts.
Very few teachers were evaluated as ineffective. Out of 9,321 teachers employed in Cuyahoga school district in 2019, 17 were evaluated as ineffective.
