Mapleton Elementary School

Mapleton Elementary School operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in Ashland, Ohio, run under Mapleton Local. Current enrollment sits at 363 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 4 schools in Mapleton Local (756 students total), Mapleton Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Mapleton Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (98%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. That tracks the state average closely.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Ashland County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,860 per year, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Mapleton Elementary School is one of 21 public schools in Ashland County (combined enrollment of about 6,940 students).

Mapleton High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Mapleton Elementary School.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mapleton Elementary School has decreased 14%, going from 420 students in 2018 to 363 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

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