Louisa May Alcott is a highly-effective, diverse, inclusive, family-oriented K-5 elementary school. We are located in a quiet, tight-knit community in the Baltic-Edgewater-West Boulevard neighborhood. Alcott was reopened as an elementary school in 1997. Since then, we have won many awards including:
The National Blue Ribbon
The National Center for Urban School Transformation
The State of Ohio School of Promise (5 times)
Traditionally rated excellent and effective on the Ohio State Report Card
Our heartfelt mission at Louisa May Alcott is to produce a joyful, rigorous, student-led culture that embraces a child's social-emotional needs, differentiated academic needs, and cultural artistic needs, to be confident, successful, balanced, thinkers and leaders prepared for college, career and service to others.
Ten award-winning CMSD teachers are reaping well-deserved congratulations. They also are planning ways to share their methods with peers across the District.
May 21, 2025 by Remi Murrey, News 5 Cleveland - Graduation season is here, and the Cleveland Council of Black Colleges Alumni Association helped students get ready through a special occasion called HBCU Bound Day 2025, to support those heading to Historically Black Colleges and Universities this Fall.
05/07/2025 The Cleveland Observer - Quelina Jordan-Shaw, a high school teacher at Cleveland Metropolitan Remote School, has been selected as a 2025 Fund for Teachers Fellow. She will receive a $4,964 grant to travel to Ghana this summer, where she will study how schools there teach career and entrepreneurship education.
CMSD is gathering feedback from high school students, staff, families, and partners to assess and improve Workforce Readiness and Career & Technical Education (CTE) programming. Your input is essential in helping us evaluate current programs and determine how to better support students in preparing for college and careers.