Original Research by School Decision on Brush High School
Brush High School serves students in grades nine through twelve in South Euclid-Lyndhurst City, a small inner-ring school district that covers two adjacent suburbs of Cleveland. The school enrolls a student body of roughly a thousand students, split evenly across all four grades. Substantially more than half of the enrollment qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting economic need within the district. The student population is predominantly Black, with smaller shares of white and multiracial students and very few Asian and Hispanic learners.
The school's state testing results from 2024-25, the most recent available year, show mixed academic performance. In English language arts and science, proficiency stands at a moderate level. Social studies proficiency is stronger. Mathematics performance is a clear weak spot, with proficiency well below the other subjects. Because this is a single year of data, a parent may want to ask the school directly about whether this pattern holds across prior years or represents a shift in performance. The district has not publicly reported a four-year graduation rate for the school, so that information was not available to compare Brush against its peer districts in Cuyahoga County. Chronic absenteeism data was also not available.
Brush is the sole high school in the South Euclid-Lyndhurst district, meaning it draws all secondary students from both the Lyndhurst and South Euclid sides of the combined city. The school is a regular public high school with no specialized magnet focus. No information on its specific course offerings, career and technical education pathways, or AP program scope was available in the data provided.
The district itself is in a period of change. Voters approved a continuing property tax levy in November 2025, the first the district had placed on the ballot since 2020. This levy, with no sunset date, will add an ongoing cost to property tax bills for any family who buys or rents in the district's footprint, a factor worth understanding if you are considering the area. The funds support a multi-phase facilities renovation plan centered on Brush High School itself. The nearly fifty-year-old high school building is slated for major work including roof replacement, HVAC upgrades, third-floor renovation, and overhaul of the Performing Arts Center and Career Technical Education spaces, phased across multiple years depending on financing. The district is also converting a separate property into a dedicated preschool building to handle a preschool program whose enrollment has quadrupled since 2020.
Lyndhurst itself is a compact, car-oriented postwar suburb of tree-lined blocks and mid-century housing. It peaked in population during the 1970s and has since declined as development moved outward. The housing stock is older, and the city is fully built out with limited new construction. The town sits immediately adjacent to Cleveland and University Circle, placing families close to major medical and educational institutions. Retail and commercial life center on Mayfield Road and the Cedar Road corridor, anchored by the Legacy Village lifestyle shopping center; civic functions cluster in a municipal complex on Mayfield Road rather than a traditional downtown. Transit is limited and a car is essential for daily life. The regional housing market shows modest inventory, with median home listing prices reflecting affordability relative to national benchmarks, though rents have been rising. The Acacia Reservation, a restored park with trails, offers the city's primary green space.
The city's largest employment base shifted when Cleveland Clinic vacated its Lyndhurst campus, formerly the TRW headquarters. That roughly ninety-acre site, adjacent to Legacy Village, sits empty and slated for redevelopment; council members have publicly favored mixed-use housing and apartments on the property. The apartment stock in Lyndhurst is predominantly older, with most units built decades ago; newer multifamily development is occurring in adjacent suburbs like Richmond Heights rather than within Lyndhurst itself.
Brush High School sits as the centerpiece of secondary education in this district, drawing its entire student population from two small adjacent communities whose character and economics center on stable, aging residential neighborhoods and declining commercial bases anchored to postwar retail corridors.
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