Berlin Elementary School
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Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 75% 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 Berlin Elementary School
Berlin Elementary School operates as an intimate elementary school in Berlin, Ohio, run under East Holmes Local. Current enrollment sits at 332 students spanning grades K through 6.
East Holmes Local comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 1,491 students; Berlin Elementary School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Berlin Elementary School shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Berlin Elementary School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Roughly 20% of students at Berlin Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Holmes County's rate of about 31%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Berlin Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.1%, the actual is 74.9%, a residual of -6.2 points.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Holmes County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,140 per year, about 11% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Holmes County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,271 students), Berlin Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Buckeye Career Center Annex-Hiland Satellite is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Berlin Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 82.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Berlin Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 6% since 2018, when it stood at 313 (now 332).
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