The Cleveland Browns and Garfield Heights City Schools hosted a field dedication ceremony for the new ForeverLawn high-quality synthetic turf field in association with Ohio Cat at Garfield Heights High School on Tuesday, October 1st, 2024, at 3 p.m. The new field marks the 15th field surface provided to Ohio schools and communities by the Browns, courtesy of the Haslam and Johnson families as well as Browns Give Back, since the team’s long-term field initiative launched eight years ago in May 2016. A primary focus of the Browns’ field project is to offer youth educational tools through “outdoor classrooms,” which offer opportunities to participate in extracurricular activities that support attendance, school engagement and overall personal growth. Garfield Heights City School District has been a partner of the Stay in the Game! Attendance Network since 2021 and is committed to improving school attendance. Student engagement is a driver of student attendance, and through the installation of the new turf field at Garfield Heights High School, the district aims to create engagement opportunities to help students get excited to attend school every day.

 

“This is an exciting day for the Garfield Heights City Schools, one that many have awaited for a long time,” said Superintendent Dr. Richard D. Reynolds. “We’d like to thank the Cleveland Browns, Haslam and Johnson Families, and everyone else for transforming our complex, and brightening our futures!”

 

The Garfield Heights City Schools is grateful to the organizations involved today for having reinvigorated our schools and our community for a generation to come! Thank you to everyone who participated.