Cleveland Heights-University Heights City

What the Numbers Say About Cleveland Heights-University Heights City

Cleveland Heights-University Heights City is a small-to-mid-sized school district in Ohio, serving 4,967 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $24,456. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $123,911, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 3904379 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Ohio statewide average of $84,740, teacher pay in Cleveland Heights-University Heights City runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 46.2% gap, and above the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (50.6% differential). Among enrolling districts in Ohio, it pays more than 96% of them. Licensing reciprocity, collective bargaining strength, and state aid formulas all contribute to where a district lands in these tiers.

On the budget side, Cleveland Heights-University Heights City reports $121.5M in total expenditure against $145.6M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 34% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $25.5M, special-education teacher pay is $10.0M. These figures are district-level aggregates from F-33, not individual contracts — step-and-column schedules, stipends, and collectively-bargained differentials sit underneath these totals.