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Benjamin Logan 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 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 1 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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 Benjamin Logan Elementary School
Set in Bellefontaine, Ohio, Benjamin Logan Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary-level community, part of Benjamin Logan Local. It teaches 587 students across grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 45% bigger than the state mean of about 404.
Within Benjamin Logan Local, which oversees 3 schools and 1,591 students, Benjamin Logan Elementary School is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Benjamin Logan Elementary School logs that nearly all students (92%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Logan County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, On paper, Benjamin Logan Elementary School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
With demographic context factored in, Benjamin Logan Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.8%; this one delivers 71.8%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Logan County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,551 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Logan County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,357 students), Benjamin Logan Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Benjamin Logan Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Benjamin Logan Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Benjamin Logan Elementary School at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 65.2%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Benjamin Logan Elementary School has contracted 8%, going from 635 students in 2018 to 587 in 2025.
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- Benjamin Logan High SchoolHigh · 508 students
- Benjamin Logan Middle SchoolMiddle · 496 students
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- Benjamin Logan High SchoolHigh · 508 students
- Bellefontaine Intermediate SchoolElementary · 505 students
- Benjamin Logan Middle SchoolMiddle · 496 students
- Benjamin Logan Middle School0.1 mi · 496
- Benjamin Logan High School0.2 mi · 508
- Ohio Hi-Point4.2 mi · 586
- Bellefontaine Intermediate School6.0 mi · 505
- Bellefontaine Elementary School6.3 mi · 616
- Bellefontaine Middle School6.5 mi · 465