Meadowlawn Elementary School

As a reasonably sized primary school in Sandusky, Ohio, Meadowlawn Elementary School teaches 421 students from grades 3 through 5, one of the schools within Perkins Local.

Across the 4 schools in Perkins Local (1,868 students total), Meadowlawn Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Meadowlawn Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Meadowlawn Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.0%, the actual is 64.9%, a residual of -10.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Erie County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,993 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Meadowlawn Elementary School is one of 29 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 12,434 students).

Nearest neighbor: Furry Elementary School, around 1.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Meadowlawn Elementary School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 427 (now 421). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 6% to 13%. Class-load math has fell: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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