Summary
Ridge Elementary School is a public K–5 school in Mentor, Ohio, serving 661 students — the largest elementary in this comparison group — as part of the Mentor Exempted Village district. It ranks 391st of 1,560 Ohio elementary schools in 2025–26 (75th percentile, 4 stars), within a district that ranks 170th of 773 statewide (78th percentile, 4 stars). Ridge spent the late 2010s in the 81st–90th percentile, slipped to the 66th–68th during and just after the pandemic years, and has since climbed back into the mid-70s to low-80s.
Academically, Ridge is comfortably above the state average. Averaging its seven state-tested subjects, roughly 77.2% of students scored proficient, compared with about 76.6% across the district and 63.8% statewide; the school beats the state on all seven tests and its own district on five of seven. Locally it ranks third of six Mentor elementaries, behind Hopkins Elementary School (87th percentile) and Bellflower Elementary School (78th), and behind Kirtland Elementary School (91st), which belongs to a different district. Ridge also reports the lowest per-pupil spending in this group — $8,906 in 2018–19, roughly $2,000–$3,900 less than every other school listed — while still landing in the state's top quartile. That spending figure is dated, so treat it with caution.
Attendance is Ridge's clearest success: chronic absenteeism fell from 18.3% in 2021–22 to 6.7% in 2025–26, less than half the district's 16.1% and far below neighboring schools in the Willoughby-Eastlake City district, which run 15.8%–19.5%. Fourth-grade math is a durable strength, at least 15 points above the state every year for four years. Two areas to watch: fifth grade, where science and math are the only tests trailing the district, and special education students, the one subgroup rated below the state midpoint (45th percentile, 2 stars) after sitting at 67th the year before. Class sizes have improved too, with the student–teacher ratio dropping from 18.2 to 16.2.
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