Columbia Elementary School

Located at 150 Columbus Rd, in Mount Vernon, Ohio, Columbia Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary-level community that hosts 244 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Mount Vernon City. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Columbia Elementary School sits 40% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Mount Vernon City, which oversees 8 schools and 3,374 students, Columbia Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Columbia Elementary School reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Columbia Elementary School reports 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Columbia Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Knox County) records that median household income runs about $73,878, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Knox County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,439 students), of which Columbia Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Mount Vernon High School, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Columbia Elementary School.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 243 students in 2018 compared to 244 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.

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