Chesapeake Elementary School

Chesapeake Elementary School operates as a moderately sized primary school in Chesapeake, Ohio, run under Chesapeake Union Exempted Village. Current enrollment sits at 497 students spanning grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 23% larger than typical.

Across the 3 schools in Chesapeake Union Exempted Village (1,219 students total), Chesapeake Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Chesapeake Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest comes out to 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Chesapeake Elementary School lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Chesapeake Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Lawrence County put the typical household earns roughly $58,325 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lawrence County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,980 students), of which Chesapeake Elementary School is one.

Chesapeake Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chesapeake Elementary School.

Chesapeake Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 8%: 540 students in 2018 compared to 497 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 95% to 91%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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