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About Shaker Heights

The small suburban city of Shaker Heights is a thriving community near the big city of Cleveland in the northern part of Ohio. A primarily residential city with beautiful neighborhoods, clean streets, and low crime, Shaker Heights is a great place to raise a family. As it is not too far from Cleveland, Shaker Heights is a great place to live and commute to the big city for work each day, as it is an easy distance. Whether you live here or are just passing through, everyone will agree that Shaker Heights is a really nice place in the Buckeye State.

Shaker Heights got its start as a planned community, constructed and designed by real estate men who were heavily involved in railroad development as well. The whole point of the design of the community of Shaker Heights was to create a nice community outside the busy city limits of Cleveland, where families could move to escape the industrial boom that was going on in the late 1800s. Shaker Heights is considered to be a suburb of Cleveland, and it is one of the closer, older suburbs within the Cleveland metropolitan area.

With an interesting and unique name like Shaker Heights, you might be wondering about the origins of this community. The last part of the name, "Heights", comes from the local geography. As this area of Ohio is on a plateau, it rises above the nearby city of Cleveland, as it is higher in elevation. The first part of the name, "Shaker", comes from a local religious sect that went by the name of "The Shakers".

Because Shaker Heights is a planned community, there have always been very strict and specific building codes and laws related to development within the city. As a result, there are many beautiful houses and well-maintained neighborhoods from the early 1900s as Shaker Heights was first getting its start. More than three-quarters of the buildings in Shaker Heights are on the list of National Historic Places, and there is even a local district that consists of neighborhoods full of historic and protected homes. These beautiful old buildings are a glimpse back into life in Ohio from years past.

Families that live in Shaker Heights enjoy the small-town feel, and also like the fact that they get to send their kids to smaller schools. The Shaker Heights City School District is in charge of the local public schools, with high quality educators and educational resources for local students. There are also a number of local private schools here in Shaker Heights. For students attending any of these local educational institutions, Shaker Heights tutors are available to provide any extra after-school assistance. These local tutors can meet with each student individually and tackle their problem areas, helping them achieve educational success.