Walnut Creek Elementary School

Walnut Creek Elementary School is an elementary campus of minimally staffed scale in Walnut Creek, Ohio, part of East Holmes Local, instructing 142 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 65% smaller than typical.

Across the 8 schools in East Holmes Local (1,491 students total), Walnut Creek Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Walnut Creek Elementary School reports that nearly all students (96%) are White; the rest comes out to 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Walnut Creek Elementary School has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Holmes County (around 31%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Walnut Creek Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 82.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 88.7%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Holmes County put median household earnings sit near $76,140, roughly 11% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Holmes County runs 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,271 students), of which Walnut Creek Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Chestnut Ridge Elementary School, around 1.7 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Walnut Creek Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 78.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 13%: 163 students in 2018 compared to 142 in 2025.

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