Editing Lakewood, Ohio (section)

===Public schools===
[[File:Lakewood (2).jpg|thumb|[[Lakewood High School (Lakewood, Ohio)|Lakewood High School]] ]]
The Lakewood City School District is managed by a directly elected school board.<ref>{{cite web |title=Board of Education |url=https://www.lakewoodcityschools.org/Board |website=Lakewood City Schools |publisher=SchoolPointe |access-date=15 April 2020 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807181855/https://www.lakewoodcityschools.org/Board |url-status=live }}</ref> The Lakewood City Schools was rated as having "Continuous Improvement" by the Ohio Department of Education in 2013. Lakewood rebuilt or renovated the city's high school, two middle schools and seven elementary schools in a process completed in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=School Construction |url=https://www.lakewoodcityschools.org/Content/818 |website=Lakewood City Schools |publisher=SchoolPointe |access-date=15 April 2020 |archive-date=May 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190520103312/http://www.lakewoodcityschools.org/Content/818 |url-status=live }}</ref> The investment was the first major school building program in Lakewood since 1920. The school system is one of the largest employers in the city of Lakewood.

Current schools in the public system include Emerson, Grant, Harrison, Hayes, Horace Mann, Lincoln and Roosevelt elementary schools (grades PK–5); Garfield and Harding middle schools (grades 6–8) and [[Lakewood High School (Lakewood, Ohio)|Lakewood High School]] (grades 9–12).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3904419 |title=Lakewood City |publisher=[[National Center for Education Statistics]] |access-date=September 26, 2023 |archive-date=September 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926203646/https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_list.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=3904419 |url-status=live }}</ref>