Cookson Elementary School

Located at 921 Mystic Ln, in Troy, Ohio, Cookson Elementary School is an intimate elementary-level community that works with 318 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Troy City. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Cookson Elementary School is one of 9 schools operated by Troy City, a district that instructs 3,929 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Cookson Elementary School logs that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 14% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 90% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Cookson Elementary School logs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Cookson Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 66% of students at Cookson Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Miami County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cookson Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 63.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.5%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Miami County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,817, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Miami County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,719 students), Cookson Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Troy Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cookson Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 72.0%.

Cookson Elementary School operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cookson Elementary School has contracted 7%, going from 343 students in 2018 to 318 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 87% to 77%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.

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