About Our District
The Garfield Heights
City Schools collaboratively and cooperatively serves students and families of the
City of Garfield Heights. Located in Cuyahoga County, and bordered on the north
by the City of Cleveland proper, and on all other sides by the first ring
communities of Northeast Ohio. Our District proudly serves approximately 3,500
students in three Kindergarten through Grade 5 schools, one middle school, and one
high school. The District also provides an award-winning Preschool program to
educate the youngest students in our community at William Foster Elementary and
also the Learning Center, a comprehensive academic resource to help right-track
students who need supplemental education support at the middle school and high
school level. All those who seek academic, co-curricular, student leadership,
diversity and community engagement success, can find these things and more in
the Garfield Heights City Schools.
The Garfield Heights
City Schools prides itself on providing a rigorous and comprehensive pre-k
through 12th grade educational curriculum that clearly focuses on
student success through college and career readiness. To that end, Garfield
Heights High Schools offers a variety of Advanced Placement courses, including
AP English, AP Government, AP American History, Honors Chemistry, Honors
Calculus, Honors Physical Science and more. While the District offers these
high-level academic courses, the GHCS also proudly sends more than 225 students
on an annual basis to the Cuyahoga Valley Career Center for those individuals
deeply interested in learning a skilled profession or hands-on expertise in one
of the trades. Middle School students have increasingly greater opportunities
to prepare them for the high school and parents are readily encouraged to be
involved. Elementary School students in the GHCS also participate in such
cutting-edge literacy programs as LETRs and social/emotional initiatives as the
Zones of Regulation.
A wide variety of co-curricular
offerings are available to students of all ages in the Garfield Heights City
Schools as well. Such opportunities include more than 18 varsity sports, the
District’s show choir, Music Express, Marching Band, Theater, A’Capella Choir,
National Honor Society, Student Council, Glass Ceiling, Future Engineers and
more. These co-curricular offerings are
award winning as well on the state, regional and local levels. Students can
expect success when they become involved in the various academic, co-curricular
and student leadership organizations in this District.
Most importantly, the
Garfield Heights City Schools recognizes its place in the greater Garfield
Heights Community. The District is proudly partnered with The Honorable Mayor
Vic Collova, City Council, the Garfield Heights Police and Fire Departments,
the Senior Club and Jennings Hall, Marymount Hospital, OverDrive Technologies
and other businesses, non-profit and community-based organizations.
For more information
about the Garfield Heights City Schools, feel free to contact us at anytime
through our website, facebook, Instagram or by calling 216-475-8100.
Sincerely,
Chris Hanke
Superintendent