Southern Local Elementary School

Southern Local Elementary School operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in Salineville, Ohio, operated by Southern Local. Current enrollment sits at 389 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Southern Local runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,056 students. Southern Local Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Southern Local Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Other groups include 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Columbiana County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,180 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Columbiana County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,165 students), Southern Local Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Southern Online Academy, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Southern Local Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Southern Local Elementary School has shrank 15%, going from 460 students in 2018 to 389 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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