Russellville Elementary School

Russellville Elementary School operates as a tight-knit primary school in Russellville, Ohio, operated by Eastern Local School District. Current enrollment sits at 295 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Eastern Local School District comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 1,829 students; Russellville Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Russellville Elementary School shows that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Compared to Brown County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Brown County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Russellville Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.9%; this one delivers 79.9%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Brown County indicate median household earnings sit near $71,270, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Brown County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,534 students), Russellville Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Southern Hills Career Technical Center, roughly 5.5 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Russellville Elementary School comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Russellville Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 5% since 2018, when it stood at 280 (now 295).

On the community side, members of the Russellville Elementary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.