The top reported proficiency rate is 86% in Science. The lowest is 73% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Mulberry Elementary School
Mulberry Elementary School, located on Buckwheat Road in Milford, serves children from kindergarten through sixth grade. The school is part of the Milford Exempted Village School District, which operates a neighborhood school model with six elementary buildings spread across the area rather than consolidated into a single campus.
The school's academic performance across tested grades shows solid proficiency in math and science, with particularly strong results in science. In English language arts, proficiency sits somewhat lower. These results place Mulberry in the top quartile for overall proficiency when compared against other districts in Clermont County. The school tested nearly all eligible students, showing strong participation across subjects.
Mulberry's enrollment is mid-sized for an elementary school at around four hundred and fifty students. The student body is predominantly white, with smaller shares of students identifying as two or more races, Hispanic, and Asian. About a quarter to a third of the school's families qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a working-class community mix. The school does not report its English learner population or special education enrollment numbers in the available data.
The school sits in a community shaped by recent change and uncertainty. Milford itself is a small river city with a walkable historic downtown of restored buildings and local businesses, but the school campuses sit on outlying roads away from that core. More significantly, the district has faced substantial budget pressure. In November 2024, voters rejected a proposed earned income tax levy, triggering immediate cuts to transportation, the introduction of sports and activity fees, and staff reductions. The district warned it would enter fiscal emergency within a few years without additional revenue. The district also paused a planned restructuring of its six elementary schools into grade-banded "sister" schools that would have moved every elementary student to a new building based on grade, but that option remains on the table as a future possibility. For families considering Mulberry, this ongoing budget instability and the possibility of future building reassignments represent real factors to understand and discuss directly with the school and district.
The surrounding housing market in Milford's zip code shows modest price movement year over year, with rents trending slightly downward. Housing affordability sits around the national average, and the area supports a mix of older residential neighborhoods with mature trees and newer subdivisions. Major employers in and around Milford include software and logistics firms, automotive dealerships, and manufacturing operations, drawing a workforce from the broader Cincinnati region.
A parent considering Mulberry would find a neighborhood school with respectable academic performance, a stable but unremarkable enrollment size, and a mixed-income student community. The school's main current context is not its academic standing, which is solid, but the district-level budget and operational changes unfolding around it. A parent may want to look into those changes directly with the district and school to understand what they might mean for transportation, extracurricular access, and longer-term planning for their child's elementary years.
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