Mills Lawn Elementary School

Set in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Mills Lawn Elementary School is an intimate K-5 school, one of the schools within Yellow Springs Exempted Village. It serves 282 students across grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 30% smaller than the state mean of about 404.

Yellow Springs Exempted Village runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 609 students. Mills Lawn Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mills Lawn Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 8% Black.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Mills Lawn Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 36% of students at Mills Lawn Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Greene County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Mills Lawn Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 75.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 77.3%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Greene County indicate the typical household earns roughly $87,309 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Greene County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,426 students), Mills Lawn Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Yellow Springs/McKinney High School, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Mills Lawn Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Mills Lawn Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 66.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 23%: 364 students in 2018 compared to 282 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked up from 69% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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