Buckeye Trail Elementary

As a medium-sized elementary school in Lore City, Ohio, Buckeye Trail Elementary enrolls 435 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within East Guernsey Local.

Within East Guernsey Local, which oversees 4 schools and 1,022 students, Buckeye Trail Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Buckeye Trail Elementary logs that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Guernsey County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Buckeye Trail Elementary reports 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Buckeye Trail Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Guernsey County runs at roughly 69%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Buckeye Trail Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.8%; this one delivers 58.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Guernsey County indicate median household income runs about $58,478, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Guernsey County's 16 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,717 students), Buckeye Trail Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Buckeye Trail Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 490 students in 2018 compared to 435 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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