Overview

Glenville High School is a public, coeducational high school in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland, part of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. Established in 1892, it is among the oldest schools profiled in this directory. Its colors are red and black, its teams are the Tarblooders, and it competes in the Senate League. It is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

At 339 students across four grades, it is also one of the smallest comprehensive high schools in this directory -- notably small for a district high school in a major city.

A source-freshness flag: Wikipedia's page for this school lists the district superintendent as Dr. Warren Morgan, while Wikipedia's page for another Cleveland Metropolitan School District high school lists Eric Gordon in the same role. Two pages on the same site give different current officeholders for one district, so at least one is out of date. We're citing neither as current -- check the district directly.

Academics

No school-specific Ohio assessment or report-card data was located for this profile. Check the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce's school report cards directly for current results.

Neighborhood

Glenville is a residential neighborhood on Cleveland's east side, in Cuyahoga County. Niche's resident reviews describe it in warm terms -- residents call it family-oriented, praise its neighbors and transit access, and one long-time resident asks for more local job opportunities so high school students can work in the area. That qualitative picture sits alongside considerably harsher statistical readings, below.

Crime & safety

The statistical sources agree that Glenville's crime rate is high, though they disagree sharply on how high. CrimeGrade gives the neighborhood an F for overall crime (5th percentile nationally, 86.70 crimes per 1,000 residents) and an F for violent crime specifically (2nd percentile, 18.81 per 1,000), describing it as less safe than both the Ohio and national averages. DoorProfit, by contrast, assigns a C- -- still "high crime" in its terms, but a substantially milder grade than an F at the 5th percentile. AreaVibes puts the chance of being a crime victim at 1 in 14, with violent crime at 1 in 52 and property crime at 1 in 19.

One internal detail is worth noting: CrimeGrade's theft grade for Glenville is a D at the 21st percentile, and it observes that theft in Glenville is actually lower than in surrounding neighborhoods. The overall F is being driven by violent crime, not property crime -- these are not the same story, and a single letter grade collapses them.

Citywide, NeighborhoodScout describes Cleveland as having one of the highest crime rates in America at 60 per 1,000 residents, with more than 99% of Ohio communities safer. DoorProfit's citywide page gives Cleveland a D overall grade while noting 51% of its neighborhoods earn an A or B, and explicitly advises readers to use neighborhood-level grades rather than the citywide figure.

The most serious problem here isn't the grade disagreement -- it's that the sources don't agree on Glenville's population. DoorProfit reports approximately 26,137 residents; Niche reports 15,652. That is a 67% difference in the denominator underlying every per-1,000 and per-capita crime rate on this page. Two providers computing rates from the same incident counts but different population bases would produce dramatically different numbers while both appearing precise. We cannot tell from the outside which population figure any given provider used, which means the crime rates above should be read as directionally indicative and not as measurements.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score. No academic data was sourced, and the safety data rests on a population denominator that two sources disagree about by two-thirds. See our ratings methodology.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, "Glenville High School" (address, founding year, NCES ID, enrollment, faculty, ratio, colors, team name, conference, accreditation, principals, superintendent).
  2. Wikipedia, "John F. Kennedy High School (Cleveland, Ohio)" (district high school count; conflicting superintendent listing).
  3. CrimeGrade.org, Glenville overall, violent, and theft crime pages (grades, percentiles, rates per 1,000, comparison to surrounding neighborhoods).
  4. AreaVibes, Glenville crime rates, citing FBI Uniform Crime Reports (victimization odds).
  5. DoorProfit, Glenville crime map (crime score, population, median household income).
  6. DoorProfit, Cleveland crime map (citywide grade, neighborhood grade distribution, poverty and income figures).
  7. NeighborhoodScout, Cleveland crime rates and statistics (citywide rate, state comparison).
  8. Niche, Glenville reviews and crime and safety (resident reviews, neighborhood population).