Mount Eaton Elementary School

Mount Eaton Elementary School, a tiny elementary-level community in Mount Eaton, Ohio, overseen by Southeast Local, serves 117 students, covering grades K through 6. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Mount Eaton Elementary School sits 71% below that benchmark.

Within Southeast Local, which oversees 7 schools and 1,744 students, Mount Eaton Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mount Eaton Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Beyond that, the school logs 3% Hispanic. Compared to Wayne County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 31% of students at Mount Eaton Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wayne County (around 49%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate median household earnings sit near $73,574, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Mount Eaton Elementary School is one of 45 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 14,479 students).

Beacon Hill Community School AKA Beacon Hill Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 6-year window. Mount Eaton Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 143 (now 117). Class-load math has tightened: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2024.

On the community side, members of the Mount Eaton Elementary School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.