Enrollment
170
Elementary
DISTRICT 290 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MIAMISBURG CITY·NCES 390443901310
Bear Primary School
545 School St, Miamisburg, OH 45342 · (937) 866-4691 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–02ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL170 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 21% of Ohio public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
10 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.6:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
121 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 43%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 27 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 26% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 32% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 25% |
Student demographics
28%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2023-24 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
63.9%
OH avg 60.6% . +6.2pp since 2021
Math
43.4%
OH avg 54.1% . -6.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 61 and 54. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | 63.9% | 43.4% |
| 2022-23 | 60.9% | 39.1% |
| 2021-22 | 57.7% | 49.7% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
55.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.9%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bear Primary School
Bear Primary School's state test result (55.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Primary School this school | 170 | 71.2% | 55.1% |
| Forest Elementary School Troy | 192 | 68.8% | 64.8% |
| Kyle Elementary School Troy | 193 | 74.6% | N/A |
| Eastview Elementary School Mansfield | 218 | 74.8% | 77.3% |
| Phillips School Marietta | 204 | 67.2% | N/A |
| LaBrae Intermediate School Leavittsburg | 246 | 71.1% | 66.6% |
Matched among Ohio elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bear Primary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.1% | #633 of 673 | #32 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.4% | #1,159 of 1,569 ▲ 6 | #48 of 76 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.9% | #792 of 1,569 ▲ 152 | #29 of 76 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 170 | #1,638 of 1,808 | #81 of 88 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.2% | #58 of 767 | #2 of 40 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
170
-19 (-10%) vs 2020
-54% since 1990-91, when it was 372
Student : Teacher
17.9:1
was 21.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 170 | 9.5 | 17.9:1 | 71% (121) |
| 2023-24 | 214 | 13.6 | 15.7:1 | 73% (156) |
| 2022-23 | 169 | 8.4 | 20.1:1 | 56% (94) |
| 2020-21 | 189 | 9 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 198 | 14.5 | 13.7:1 | 43% (86) |
| 2015-16 | 222 | 14 | 15.9:1 | 53% (118) |
| 2010-11 | 234 | 11 | 21.3:1 | 52% (122) |
| 2000-01 | 278 | 17 | 16.4:1 | 24% (67) |
| 1990-91 | 372 | 17 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bear Primary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (198 to 170); teachers down 34% (14.5 to 9.5).
About Bear Primary School
Students in Miamisburg, Ohio, attend Bear Primary School, a small elementary school. Grades offered run from pre-K through 2, with 170 students enrolled. The average among elementary schools in Ohio is roughly 404 students; this school is 58% smaller than that.
Across its 10 schools, Miamisburg City enrolls 4,865 students. Bear Primary School is one of those schools.
Bear Primary School enrolls a student body that is 84% White. The rest of enrollment is 7% Black, 5% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Montgomery County's population at about 68%. The chance that two students picked at random at Bear Primary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 28%.
Federal staffing data show 9.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Bear Primary School and a ratio of 17.9:1. Elementary schools in Ohio have a similar average ratio of 17.9:1. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 71% of enrollment. That is 29 points above the 42% average for public schools in Montgomery County.
Bear Primary School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 21% of Ohio public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with Ohio schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Bear Primary School's results are 6.8 points below predicted: 55.1% against 61.9%.
Census Bureau estimates for Montgomery County show that median household income is about $66,139, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 31%, and about 11% of people live in poverty. A total of 160 public schools operate in Montgomery County, serving about 74,487 students.
Kinder Intermediate School is the closest public school, about 1.2 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Bear Primary School ranks 9th on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count declined from 189 to 170. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (17.9:1) than in 2020-21 (21.0:1).
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Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
536,096
Census ACS
Median income
$66,139
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
74,487 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Miamisburg City
- Miamisburg High SchoolHigh · 1,437 students
- Miamisburg Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,105 students
- Kinder Intermediate SchoolElementary · 396 students
- Medlar View Primary SchoolElementary · 352 students
- Jane Chance Intermediate SchoolElementary · 329 students
- Bauer Primary SchoolElementary · 311 students
Other schools in Miamisburg
- Miamisburg High SchoolHigh · 1,437 students
- Miamisburg Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,105 students
- Kinder Intermediate SchoolElementary · 396 students
- Medlar View Primary SchoolElementary · 352 students
- Jane Chance Intermediate SchoolElementary · 329 students
- Mound Intermediate SchoolElementary · 306 students
Nearby schools
- Kinder Intermediate School1.2 mi · 396
- Mound Intermediate School1.4 mi · 306
- Mark Twain Primary School1.8 mi · 254
- Miamisburg Middle School1.9 mi · 1,105
- Miamisburg High School2.4 mi · 1,437
- Medlar View Primary School3.2 mi · 352
Frequently asked questions
About Bear Primary SchoolHow many students attend Bear Primary School?
Bear Primary School enrolls approximately 170 students in grades PK-02.
What age range does Bear Primary School serve?
Bear Primary School serves students from grade PK through grade 02.
How many teachers does Bear Primary School have?
Bear Primary School employs 10 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Bear Primary School?
Student demographics at Bear Primary School are roughly 84% White, 5% Hispanic, 7% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Bear Primary School in?
Bear Primary School is part of Miamisburg City.
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