Lakota Elementary School

Set in Kansas, Ohio, Lakota Elementary School is a medium-sized K-5 school, run under Lakota Local. It instructs 403 students across grades pre-K through 4.

Lakota Local runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 18,806 students. Lakota Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Lakota Elementary School reports that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Sandusky County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Lakota Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 75.0%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Sandusky County put median household earnings sit near $62,295, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Lakota Elementary School is one of 22 public schools in Sandusky County (combined enrollment of about 8,558 students).

Lakota Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lakota Elementary School at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 65.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Lakota Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 419 (now 403). White enrollment moved from 93% to 85% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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