Dan Emmett Elementary School

Dan Emmett Elementary School is a cozy elementary-level community in Mount Vernon, Ohio, one of the schools within Mount Vernon City. The school educates 244 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 40% below the state mean of about 404.

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

In terms of who attends, Dan Emmett Elementary School records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 8% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Dan Emmett Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm.

Across the wider county, census data for Knox County shows median household earnings sit near $73,878, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Dan Emmett Elementary School is one of 20 public schools in Knox County (combined enrollment of about 7,439 students).

The closest other public school is Pleasant Street Elementary School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Dan Emmett Elementary School.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dan Emmett Elementary School has declined 19%, going from 301 students in 2018 to 244 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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