Chestnut Elementary School

Chestnut Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary campus in Painesville, Ohio, one of the schools within Painesville City Local. The school instructs 425 students in grades K through 5.

Painesville City Local runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,735 students. Chestnut Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Chestnut Elementary School records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 19% White, 15% Black, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 5%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, census data for Lake County shows median household income runs about $80,925, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lake County's 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,899 students), Chestnut Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Buckeye Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 454 students in 2018 compared to 425 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 51% to 57% across the same window.

On this page, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.