Athletic teams were known as the Golden Rams and competed as members of the Akron City Series.

Upon moving to the new site in 2022, the school was renamed Garfield Community Learning Center.

James R. Garfield, the son of the slain president, gave the principal address at the ceremony.

[2] While the new building is constructed at the Garfield site,[3] the combined school at the Kenmore location will be known as Kenmore-Garfield.

In May 2021, it was announced that the new building at the Garfield site would be called Garfield Community Learning Center, which the school board hoped would allow the Kenmore name to stay on a building in the Kenmore neighborhood.