Adena Elementary School

Adena Elementary School, a moderately sized primary school in Frankfort, Ohio, one of the schools within Adena Local, hosts 524 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 30% bigger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Across the 3 schools in Adena Local (1,084 students total), Adena Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Adena Elementary School reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 99% of students at Adena Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Adena Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Ross County indicate median household income runs about $61,303, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ross County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,625 students), Adena Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Adena Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 7%: 489 students in 2018 compared to 524 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 24.9:1 in 2025.

On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.