Budd Elementary School

Budd Elementary School, a tight-knit middle-grades school in Loudonville, Ohio, overseen by Loudonville-Perrysville Exempted Village, hosts 206 students, covering grades 4 through 6. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 482 students each, so Budd Elementary School sits 57% below that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Loudonville-Perrysville Exempted Village (834 students total), Budd Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Budd Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%); the rest breaks down as 3% Hispanic. Compared to Ashland County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Budd Elementary School logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.0:1, putting Budd Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 42% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Budd Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.8%; this one delivers 76.6%.

In the area at large, census data for Ashland County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,860 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Ashland County runs 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,940 students), of which Budd Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: McMullen Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Budd Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Budd Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 71.3%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Budd Elementary School has shrank 15%, going from 241 students in 2018 to 206 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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