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Cleveland Heights–University Heights City School District

school district in Ohio

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ5132148 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Cleveland Heights–University Heights City School District is a public school district based in University Heights, Ohio, United States.

The district enrolled 5,062 students as of January 10, 2020, and covers most of Cleveland Heights, all of University Heights, and a small portion of South Euclid.

Schools

There are a total of ten schools in the Cleveland Heights–University Heights City School District – seven elementary, two middle, one high school, an early childhood learning center, and a school for students with emotional needs.

Nine schools are located within the city limits of Cleveland Heights, while Gearity Professional Development School is located in University Heights. The Coventry Elementary School and Wiley Middle School buildings are no longer used as active school buildings. Roosevelt Junior High School has been demolished.

High school

Grades 9–12

Cleveland Heights High School (Cleveland Heights)

Middle schools

Grades 6–8

Baumgardner Middle School (Cleveland Heights); closed for renovations in 2017 and reopened for the 2019–2020 school year. Originally named Monticello Middle School; renamed in 2025.

Roxboro Middle School (Cleveland Heights); closed for renovations in 2017 and reopened for the 2019–2020 school year.

Editorial summary

“Cleveland Heights–University Heights City School District” enters the record as school district in Ohio. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cleveland, Heights and University can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2017, 2019, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cleveland, Heights and University.
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Why this record matters

“Cleveland Heights–University Heights City School District” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Cleveland, Heights and University provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5132148. VIAF identifies the subject as 156146782. The Library of Congress control number is n2005031382. Authority coordinates are 41.508, -81.563. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 2017, 2019 and 2025.

Critical limits

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How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Cleveland Heights–University Heights City School District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.