Stevan Dohanos Elementary School

Stevan Dohanos Elementary School is a small elementary campus in Lorain, Ohio, part of Lorain City. The school teaches 301 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 25% leaner than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Across the 15 schools in Lorain City (6,150 students total), Stevan Dohanos Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Stevan Dohanos Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Black, 10% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

In terms of school funding signals, Stevan Dohanos Elementary School lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Lorain County indicate median household income runs about $73,347, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Lorain County's 92 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,516 students), Stevan Dohanos Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Lorain Preparatory High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stevan Dohanos Elementary School.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 365 students in 2018 compared to 301 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 15% to 10% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 today.

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