Melridge Elementary School

Melridge Elementary School operates as a small K-5 school in Painesville, Ohio, one of the schools within Riverside Local. Current enrollment sits at 299 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 26% smaller than typical.

Riverside Local runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,841 students. Melridge Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Melridge Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 15% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Melridge Elementary School logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Melridge Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 73.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 79.3%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Lake County put median household income runs about $80,925, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Lake County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,899 students), of which Melridge Elementary School is one.

Buckeye Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Melridge Elementary School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Melridge Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 69.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 7%: 320 students in 2018 compared to 299 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 83% to 74% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.

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