Holloway Elementary School

Holloway Elementary School operates as a compact elementary campus in Holland, Ohio, run under Springfield Local. Current enrollment sits at 341 students spanning grades pre-K through 3.

Springfield Local runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 5,814 students. Holloway Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Holloway Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment. Other groups include 25% Black, 9% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Holloway Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 73% of students at Holloway Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Lucas County's rate of about 44%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Holloway Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.1%, the actual is 61.0%, a residual of -0.1 points.

Across the wider county, Lucas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,224 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lucas County's 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,839 students), Holloway Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Springfield Digital Academy (SDA), around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 17%: 411 students in 2018 compared to 341 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share grew from 20% to 25%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

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