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  • Literacy Statistics
  • Click here to review Estimates of Adult Literacy Measures: Comparing Single Year ACS Estimate Data with the 3-Year Estimate ACS Data
  • Click here to review The Appendix of Variables used to Update Reder’s Mathematical Literacy Models by Selected Municipality, 2005-2007.
  • Click here to review Estimates of Adult Literacy Measures
  • Click here to review Estimates of Mean Literacy Proficiencies for Cuyahoga County & Selected Municipalities
  • Click here to review Estimates of the Percent at Level 1 Literacy for Cuyahoga County and Selected Municipalities
  • Click here to review Number of Births to Mothers without a High School Degree, 2003-2005

Children:

  • As early as age three, children in families receiving cash assistance have a vocabulary half the size of children in families with high-end incomes; Children in professional families hear more than 30 million words by their third birthday, while children in lower income families hear only 10 million words
  • Children born to mothers without a high school diploma are less likely to have children’s books in their homes
  • According to an analysis of Ohio Department of Health birth records, between 2000 and 2005, one in three births in Cuyahoga County was to a mother without a high school diploma
  • According to American Community Survey in 2016, 30.8% of women who gave birth in that year did not have a high school diploma.

Young Adults:

  • The graduation rate for the class of 2015 from Cleveland Metroplitian School District was 69.1%
  • Average unemployment range for 16-24 year olds in 2016 was 14.95% in Cuyahoga County. For Cleveland the average unemployment rate for 16-24 year olds in 2016 was 22.15%
  • 19.7% of 18-24 year olds living in Cleveland do not have a high school diploma.

Adults:

  • Nearly half the population in Cuyahoga County (47 percent) over the age of 16 have literacy levels below the required minimum of Level 3
  • Since people with Level 1 or 2 literacy skills are likely to be excluded from all but minimum wage work, more than half a million Greater Clevelanders lack the skills to obtain jobs that provide a decent standard of living
  • About 1 in 8 Cuyahoga County residents are at the lowest literacy level, while 1 in 4 Cleveland residents are at the lowest literacy level.

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Cleveland, OH 44115
Phone: 216.776.6180

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Events

  • Does Cuyahoga County Have A Literacy Crisis? – 12/11/19November 18, 2019 - 12:53 pm

News

  • National Skills Coalition selects Ohio Workforce Coalition to Join State Policy Advocacy NetworkOctober 24, 2019 - 10:17 am
  • The Literacy Cooperative’s 2019 2Gen SummitMay 30, 2019 - 2:00 pm

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