Burroughs Elementary School

Burroughs Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment elementary campus in Toledo, Ohio, overseen by Toledo City. Current enrollment sits at 310 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Burroughs Elementary School sits 23% leaner than that benchmark.

Toledo City runs 57 schools in total, collectively educating 21,181 students. Burroughs Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Burroughs Elementary School reports that 43% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 25% White, 19% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. By comparison, Lucas County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Lucas County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $62,224 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Burroughs Elementary School is one of 143 public schools in Lucas County (combined enrollment of about 73,839 students).

Bowsher High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Burroughs Elementary School has fell 14%, going from 359 students in 2018 to 310 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 40% to 25%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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