The top reported proficiency rate is 85% in Social studies. The lowest is 67% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Lakeville Elementary School
Lakeville Elementary School serves students in grades three through five in a small rural hamlet in northeastern Holmes County, Ohio, along State Route 226 west of Odell Lake. The school is part of the West Holmes Local School District, whose other buildings cluster around Millersburg, leaving Lakeville Elementary as an isolated campus in a dispersed farm-country setting where daily life centers on agriculture, the post office, and lakes rather than a commercial village.
The student body here is very small, drawn almost entirely from the immediate area and overwhelmingly white. About a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school has minimal documented special population enrollment data, which is not unusual for rural elementary schools of this size. A substantial share of the school's families live in homes valued modestly for the state, in a county known for its large Amish settlement and rolling terrain.
On state testing, Lakeville Elementary shows strength in math, where proficiency sits in the upper range. Science proficiency is also solid. Reading and language arts proficiency is lower by comparison, falling into a mid-range band. The school's overall proficiency index places it above the midpoint among the small number of districts that serve Holmes County. Only one recent year of state test data is available, so trend movement cannot be assessed from the payload.
The most significant change ahead is the planned consolidation of West Holmes' four separate elementary buildings into one new K-5 facility west of Millersburg, scheduled to open in the 2026-2027 school year. Lakeville's current elementary operations will close, and families will transition to the new campus. This move will end the school's isolated rural location in favor of a modern, fully accessible building sited next to the high school. For families with children who will still be in the elementary grades after the transition, the commute will lengthen from walking distance in rural Lakeville to a drive of several miles to Millersburg. For families considering the district, this is a rare circumstance: the district financed the new building while removing tax levies rather than adding them, so the infrastructure investment came without an increase to property taxes.
Lakeville Elementary's current data is sparse in some areas. Civil rights compliance monitoring, staff composition, attendance, discipline, and program details beyond the core academic curriculum are not visible in available records. Graduation rate does not apply to an elementary school. The school's role as a small rural feeder building means its full context sits within the larger West Holmes system and the towns it serves, which span from Killbuck and Big Prairie in the south to Millersburg at the district's center.
See more original research from School Decision →