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Bell Creek Intermediate 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 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 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 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 81% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Bell Creek Intermediate School
Bell Creek Intermediate School is one of the high-enrollment elementary schools in Bellbrook, Ohio, overseen by Bellbrook-Sugarcreek Local, with 682 students on its rolls from grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 69% above the state mean of about 404.
Bellbrook-Sugarcreek Local comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,725 students; Bell Creek Intermediate School is among them.
On demographics, Bell Creek Intermediate School logs that nearly all students (84%) are White. Other groups include 5% Asian, 4% Black, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Greene County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, Bell Creek Intermediate School records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.3:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bell Creek Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.0%, the actual is 85.5%, a residual of +4.5 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Greene County put the typical household earns roughly $87,309 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Greene County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,426 students), Bell Creek Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.
Bellbrook High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bell Creek Intermediate School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 80.4%.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bell Creek Intermediate School has expanded 17%, going from 585 students in 2018 to 682 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 in 2025.
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