Buckeye Elementary School

Buckeye Elementary School is a mid-tier elementary campus in Painesville, Ohio, operated by Riverside Local. The school instructs 366 students in grades pre-K through 4.

Riverside Local runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,841 students. Buckeye Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Buckeye Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 67%. Beyond that, the school shows 17% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Buckeye Elementary School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.7:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Buckeye Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.7%, the actual is 73.0%, a residual of -1.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Lake County indicate median household income runs about $80,925, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Lake County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,899 students), Buckeye Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Chestnut Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Buckeye Elementary School has climbed 10%, going from 332 students in 2018 to 366 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 67% across the same window.

On allk12, members of the Buckeye Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.