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Anna Elementary School
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 78% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 12 points, placing it in Ohio's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Anna Elementary School
Set in Anna, Ohio, Anna Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary school, run under Anna Local. It teaches 516 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 28% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.
Anna Local comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,064 students; Anna Elementary School is among them.
On demographics, Anna Elementary School shows that nearly all students (89%) are White. Beyond that, the school reports 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, Anna Elementary School lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Shelby County (around 52%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Anna Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 78.1%; Anna Elementary School posts 89.6%, +11.5 points above that line.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Shelby County) records that median household earnings sit near $73,978, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Shelby County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,812 students), of which Anna Elementary School is one.
Anna High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Anna Elementary School at 1st of 5; the average score across the group is 73.8%.
The school occupies a countryside site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 506 students in 2018 compared to 516 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 96% to 89%.
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