St. Rocco School
2 mi ✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland, Jon Peterson) Grades PreK-8 106 students 10.5 students per teacher Roman Catholic Co-ed
Private elementary schools in Cleveland, OH
31 in Cleveland or within 6 miles; schools in Cleveland itself count at any distance from downtown. 29 are on the state’s EdChoice list. Private schools that teach any grade from kindergarten through 5, going by each school’s grade span in the federal survey (or, for schools new since then, the state’s official list).
Affiliation, co-ed or single-sex, association membership and the share of graduates going on to a 4-year college come from the 2023-24 federal Private School Universe survey.
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland) Grades 5-8 21 students 4 students per teacher Christian (nondenominational) Special program emphasis Co-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland) Grades K-8
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland, Jon Peterson) Grades PreK-8
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland) Grades K-8 244 students 14.3 students per teacher Roman Catholic Co-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland, Jon Peterson) Grades PreK-8 388 students 16.4 students per teacher Roman Catholic Co-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland) Grades PreK-8 174 students 11.2 students per teacher Roman Catholic Co-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland, Jon Peterson) Grades PreK-8 402 students 15.6 students per teacher Roman Catholic Co-ed
Holy Name Elementary
3 mi ✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland, Jon Peterson) Grades K-8 176 students 14.2 students per teacher Roman Catholic Co-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland) Grades PreK-8
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland) Grades PreK-8 170 students 13.1 students per teacher Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) Co-ed
St. Francis
4 mi ✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland, Jon Peterson) Grades K-8
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland) Grades PreK-8 143 students 12.1 students per teacher Roman Catholic Co-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland, Jon Peterson) Grades K-8 221 students 16.6 students per teacher Roman Catholic Co-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland, Jon Peterson) Grades K-8 249 students 18.7 students per teacher Roman Catholic Co-ed
Forest City Academy
4 mi ✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland) Grades K-5
Cleveland Montessori
5 mi ✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland) Grades PreK-8 78 students 9.9 students per teacher Roman Catholic Montessori Co-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland) Grades PreK-8 182 students 12.1 students per teacher Roman Catholic Co-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland, Jon Peterson) Grades PreK-8 233 students 14 students per teacher Roman Catholic Co-ed
St. Charles School
6 mi ✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland, Jon Peterson, Autism) Grades PreK-8 416 students 18.6 students per teacher Roman Catholic Co-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland) Grades PreK-8 231 students 7.2 students per teacher Nonsectarian Co-ed
St. Mark School
7 mi ✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland) Grades PreK-8 407 students 17 students per teacher Roman Catholic Co-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland) Grades K-8 198 students 12.4 students per teacher Seventh-Day Adventist Co-ed
✓ Ohio Scholarships (EdChoice, Cleveland, Jon Peterson) Grades K-8
On the state’s official list Other private schools
All 31 private elementary schools in Cleveland or within 6 miles
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What Ohio pays
Ohio EdChoice Scholarship Scholarship
$6,166 for grades K-8, $8,408 for grades 9-12 Families at or below 450% of the poverty level ($148,500 for a family of four) get the full amount. Above that it is scaled down.
Figures read from each program’s official pages, October 2, 2026. Sources and how to apply
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