Legacy Academy of Excellence Mansfield

Legacy Academy of Excellence Mansfield is an elementary school of rural-scale scale in Mansfield, Ohio, part of Legacy Academy of Excellence Mansfield, enrolling 100 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 75% below the state mean of about 404.

Legacy Academy of Excellence Mansfield sits inside Legacy Academy of Excellence Mansfield, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On demographics, Legacy Academy of Excellence Mansfield logs that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 7% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at Legacy Academy of Excellence Mansfield qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Richland County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Richland County put median household earnings sit near $59,509, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Richland County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,772 students), Legacy Academy of Excellence Mansfield is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cypress High School, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. Legacy Academy of Excellence Mansfield is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.