Cox Elementary School

Located at 506 Dayton Ave, in Xenia, Ohio, Cox Elementary School is an intimate elementary campus that instructs 216 students (grades K through 5), part of Xenia Community City. Enrollment runs roughly 47% leaner than the state mean of about 404.

Across the 8 schools in Xenia Community City (3,611 students total), Cox Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Cox Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 18% multiracial, 9% Black, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Greene County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Cox Elementary School records 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

In the surrounding community, Greene County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,309 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Greene County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,426 students), Cox Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Warner Middle School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Cox Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 30%: 309 students in 2018 compared to 216 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 79% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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