Mercer Elementary School

Mercer Elementary School is one of the well-populated K-5 schools in Cincinnati, Ohio, operated by Forest Hills Local, with 611 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Mercer Elementary School sits 51% above that benchmark.

Forest Hills Local runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 6,827 students. Mercer Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Mercer Elementary School records that nearly all students (82%) are White. The remainder consists of 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Mercer Elementary School logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hamilton County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mercer Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.2%, the actual is 84.4%, a residual of +3.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hamilton County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $72,470 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hamilton County's 212 public schools (combined enrollment of about 111,403 students), Mercer Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Turpin High School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mercer Elementary School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 85.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mercer Elementary School has fell 15%, going from 716 students in 2018 to 611 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 88% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Mercer Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.