Rio Grande Elementary School

Rio Grande Elementary School is one of the cozy elementary schools in Rio Grande, Ohio, part of Gallipolis City, with 235 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 42% below the state mean of about 404.

Gallipolis City comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,859 students; Rio Grande Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Rio Grande Elementary School shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That composition is broadly in line with Gallia County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, census data for Gallia County shows the typical household earns roughly $56,830 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Rio Grande Elementary School is one of 15 public schools in Gallia County (combined enrollment of about 4,526 students).

Buckeye Hills Career Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 11%: 263 students in 2018 compared to 235 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.