Lynchburg-Clay Elementary School

Lynchburg-Clay Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in Lynchburg, Ohio, run under Lynchburg-Clay Local, with 471 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 3 schools in Lynchburg-Clay Local (995 students total), Lynchburg-Clay Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Lynchburg-Clay Elementary School logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. Compared to Highland County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Highland County's rate of about 66%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lynchburg-Clay Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 78.0%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Highland County shows the typical household earns roughly $65,785 per year, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Highland County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,468 students), of which Lynchburg-Clay Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lynchburg-Clay High School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lynchburg-Clay Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 66.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 14%: 546 students in 2018 compared to 471 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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