Orchard Hollow Elementary School

Orchard Hollow Elementary School, a moderately sized primary school in Mentor, Ohio, part of Mentor Exempted Village, serves 359 students, covering grades K through 5.

Across the 13 schools in Mentor Exempted Village (6,896 students total), Orchard Hollow Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Orchard Hollow Elementary School shows that nearly all students (86%) are White; the rest comes out to 8% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Lake County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Orchard Hollow Elementary School logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Orchard Hollow Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lake County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Orchard Hollow Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.2%, the actual is 80.6%, a residual of +0.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Lake County) shows that median household earnings sit near $80,925, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Orchard Hollow Elementary School is one of 65 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 27,899 students).

Mentor High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Orchard Hollow Elementary School at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 71.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 9%: 395 students in 2018 compared to 359 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.8:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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