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.
3/4/2025 -- “It is the gold standard for Montessori education and the platinum standard for public Montessori,” said Celeste, who has been the school’s principal for the last eight years.
2/20/2025 -- "I picked her up out of her seat, got under her arms, and started doing the Heimlich," Tricia Page said. "For a moment, there was just silence. That was the scariest part."
CMSD scholars from four high schools gathered to engage in a candid and enlightening conversation about teen sexuality, at the 2024 Teen Health Summit.
The opening of Mound Wellness Center, Glenville Wellness Center and Clara E Westropp Wellness Center is a collaboration between MetroHealth and CMSD to provide school-based healthcare services