Enrollment
272
Elementary
DISTRICT 333 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MENTOR EXEMPTED VILLAGE·NCES 390454902242
Lake Elementary School
7625 Pinehurst Dr, Mentor On The Lake, OH 44060 · (440) 257-5953 · Lake County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL272 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 42% of Ohio public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
144 students
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 43%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 42 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
64.1%
OH avg 59.8% . +4.3pp since 2021
Math
69.3%
OH avg 56.1% . +14.9pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 15 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.1% | 69.3% |
| 2023-24 | 65.9% | 55.9% |
| 2022-23 | 62.2% | 64.1% |
| 2021-22 | 59.8% | 54.5% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
63.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.8%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lake Elementary School
Lake Elementary School's state test result (63.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Elementary School this school | 272 | 52.9% | 63.3% |
| Parkview Elementary School Wooster | 264 | 50.4% | 61.7% |
| Orchard Park Elementary School Kettering | 294 | 49.0% | 84.7% |
| Sterling Morton Elementary School Mentor | 298 | 47.7% | 70.4% |
| Union Elementary School Upper Sandusky | 265 | 52.5% | 84.8% |
| Hook Elementary School Troy | 272 | 51.8% | 82.9% |
Matched among Ohio elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lake Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Lake County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.3% | #565 of 673 | #13 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.3% | #674 of 1,569 ▲ 280 | #14 of 25 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.1% | #782 of 1,569 ▲ 46 | #14 of 25 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +9.6pp | #288 of 1,514 | #4 of 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 272 | #1,382 of 1,808 | #24 of 27 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #156 of 1,582 | #2 of 25 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.6% | #783 of 1,590 | #14 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.9% | #214 of 767 | #5 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.5% | #435 of 992 | #8 of 18 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
272
-36 (-12%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 461
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 12.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 272 | 19.5 | 14.0:1 | 53% (144) |
| 2023-24 | 285 | 20.5 | 13.9:1 | 58% (165) |
| 2022-23 | 306 | 21.5 | 14.3:1 | 42% (127) |
| 2020-21 | 308 | 25 | 12.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 318 | 19 | 16.7:1 | 49% (157) |
| 2015-16 | 349 | 21 | 16.6:1 | 55% (193) |
| 2010-11 | 317 | 21 | 15.1:1 | 48% (151) |
| 2000-01 | 465 | 25 | 18.6:1 | 20% (93) |
| 1990-91 | 461 | 19 | 24.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lake Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (318 to 272); teachers up 2% (19 to 19.5).
About Lake Elementary School
Lake Elementary School is a public elementary school in Mentor On The Lake, Ohio. The school has 272 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Ohio enroll about 404 students on average.
In Mentor Exempted Village, 13 schools enroll a combined 6,896 students.
Of every 100 students at Lake Elementary School, about 79 are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 3% Black. The diversity index for Lake Elementary School is 37%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 19.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.0:1. Elementary schools in Ohio have an average ratio of 17.9:1. About 53% of students at Lake Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 39% average for public schools in Lake County.
Lake Elementary School earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 42% of Ohio public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Lake Elementary School is -5.5 points: 63.3% actual, 68.8% predicted.
In the surrounding county, Lake County, the median household earns about $80,925 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 32%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Counting Lake Elementary School, Lake County has 65 public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Shore Middle School is about 1.2 miles from Lake Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 74.8% proficiency; Lake Elementary School posts 63.3%.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 272, from 308 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher increased from 12.3 to 14.0 over 4 years.
People who know Lake Elementary School can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
232,216
Census ACS
Median income
$80,925
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
65
27,899 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mentor Exempted Village
- Mentor High SchoolHigh · 2,217 students
- Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 852 students
- Shore Middle SchoolMiddle · 752 students
- Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 661 students
- Hopkins Elementary SchoolElementary · 466 students
- Bellflower Elementary SchoolElementary · 465 students
Other Lake Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 4 states are named Lake Elementary. Lake Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 10.
- Lake Elementary SchoolHartville, OH · 1,223 students
- Lake Elementary SchoolMillbury, OH · 763 students
- Lake Elementary SchoolSt. Amant, LA · 1,096 students
- Lake ElementaryOceanside, CA · 696 students
- Lake ElementarySan Pablo, CA · 350 students
Nearby schools
- Shore Middle School1.2 mi · 752
- Bellflower Elementary School1.6 mi · 465
- Fairfax Elementary School1.6 mi · 310
- Mentor High School2.0 mi · 2,217
- Mentor High School Preschool2.0 mi · 38
- Orchard Hollow Elementary School2.2 mi · 359
Frequently asked questions
About Lake Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Lake Elementary School?
Lake Elementary School enrolls approximately 272 students in grades KG-05.
Is Lake Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Lake Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Lake Elementary School?
Approximately 14.0:1 students per teacher at Lake Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Lake Elementary School?
Student demographics at Lake Elementary School are roughly 79% White, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Lake Elementary School public or private?
Lake Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Mentor Exempted Village.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.