Welcome to the 2024-2025 Waverly School Year! We are glad to have you all back, and look forward to an amazing leadership and youth development experience. 

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School Motto: Learn. Lead. Succeed.

Waverly School is the best choice for Preschool - 8th grade education in Cleveland’s Detroit Shoreway Neighborhood.

Our highly qualified staff believes in our vision to inspire and empower students to be lifelong learners and leaders. We are committed to nurturing your child and providing opportunities to engage in meaningful leadership experiences to achieve academic and social success in the classroom and beyond.

Waverly is a Leader in Me school, designed to empower students with the leadership and life skills they need to thrive in the 21st Century. Through our Leadership and Youth Development model, we will create a culture of leadership that will help students develop social, ethical, emotional, physical and cognitive competencies.

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The Mission of Waverly School is we will inspire and empower our students to be leaders in their school, the community, and their life. We will nurture our students and provide them with opportunities to engage in meaningful leadership experiences to achieve academic and social success.

Our Vision is we will inspire and empower our students to be life-long learners and leaders.

Waverly offers:

• Strong parent involvement including an organized, committed School Parent Organization that meets monthly and a 96% parent-teacher conference attendance rate
• Partnerships with:
  
  • Detroit Shoreway 
  • Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland
  • Tru2U Mentoring Program
  • ZenWorks Yoga
  • DIVAS & Boys2Men Mentoring Group
  • and More!
• Extracurricular activities including boys and girls basketball and Period 0 (Grades 5-8 Morning Encore Expansion)
• Not on Our Watch (N.O.W.) anti-bullying program and Winning Against Violent Environments (W.A.V.E) peer conflict mediation
• On-site counseling services for students and families through Beech Brook
• Interactive use of technology, including computers and Smart Boards.
• Teacher Based Teaming to improve teaching and learning