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Alumni: what's one memory from Bethel Elementary School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
944
Elementary
DISTRICT 664 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BETHEL LOCAL·NCES 390486103313
Bethel Elementary School
7120 State Route 201, Tipp City, OH 45371 · (937) 845-9439 · Miami County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL944 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 43% of Ohio public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
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
20.5:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.1:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
385 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 43%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 170 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 158 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 129 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 173 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 151 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 163 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (170) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (163).
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · 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 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
65.9%
OH avg 59.8% . -6.2pp since 2021
Math
71.3%
OH avg 56.1% . -2.0pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.9% | 71.3% |
| 2023-24 | 74.3% | 73.3% |
| 2022-23 | 68.6% | 72.1% |
| 2021-22 | 72.1% | 73.2% |
% 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
71.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.4%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% 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%.
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 Bethel Elementary School
Bethel Elementary School's state test result (71.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethel Elementary School this school | 944 | 40.8% | 71.2% |
| Northwestern Elementary School Springfield | 950 | 44.2% | 62.4% |
| North Canton Intermediate School North Canton | 888 | 33.6% | 85.0% |
| Batavia Elementary School Batavia | 1,242 | 44.8% | 66.0% |
| Donovan Elementary School Lebanon | 798 | 35.2% | 71.6% |
| Oakdale Elementary School Cincinnati | 710 | 45.2% | 81.2% |
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 Bethel Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Miami County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.2% | #438 of 673 | #5 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #619 of 1,569 ▼ 84 | #9 of 15 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.9% | #723 of 1,569 ▼ 179 | #11 of 15 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.1pp | #202 of 1,514 | #1 of 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 944 | #39 of 1,808 | #1 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.5:1 | #1,340 of 1,582 | #13 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.7% | #892 of 1,590 | #6 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.8% | #393 of 767 | #6 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +42.6% | #77 of 561 | #1 of 6 |
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
944
+178 (+23%) vs 2020
+130% since 1990-91, when it was 410
Student : Teacher
20.5:1
was 19.1:1
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 | 944 | 46 | 20.5:1 | 41% (385) |
| 2023-24 | 932 | 47.8 | 19.5:1 | 39% (367) |
| 2022-23 | 930 | 45 | 20.7:1 | 24% (222) |
| 2020-21 | 766 | 40 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 662 | 27 | 24.5:1 | 25% (167) |
| 2015-16 | 531 | 26 | 20.4:1 | 22% (117) |
| 2010-11 | 481 | 23 | 20.9:1 | 13% (64) |
| 2000-01 | 431 | 21 | 20.5:1 | 2% (8) |
| 1990-91 | 410 | 22 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bethel Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 43% (662 to 944); teachers up 70% (27 to 46).
About Bethel Elementary School
Bethel Elementary School is a large elementary school found in Tipp City, Ohio. The student body numbers 944 students, from kindergarten through 5. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Ohio is about 404, so this school runs 134% bigger than that.
Bethel Elementary School is in Bethel Local, a district with 1,991 students across 3 schools.
At Bethel Elementary School, White students make up 82% of the student body. The school is also 5% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The White share of the county population is higher, at 90%. Bethel Elementary School has a diversity index of 32%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school reported 46 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 20.5:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Ohio average 17.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 41%. That is close to the 42% average for public schools in Miami County.
allk12 grades Bethel Elementary School a C+. The grade compares the school only with Ohio public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Bethel Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 71.2%, compared with a predicted 73.4%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Ohio schools on BeatsExpectations.
Within Miami County, median household income is about $76,817, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 27%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Miami County number 36 and enroll about 16,719.
The nearest public school is Bethel High School, at about 0.4 miles. Bethel Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 60.6%, lower than Bethel Elementary School's 71.2%.
Bethel Elementary School has an NCES locale of Rural: Fringe.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Bethel Elementary School went from 766 students to 944. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 19.1:1 to 20.5:1.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Miami County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
110,296
Census ACS
Median income
$76,817
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
36
16,719 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bethel Local
- Bethel Middle SchoolMiddle · 526 students
- Bethel High SchoolHigh · 521 students
Other schools in Tipp City
- Tippecanoe High SchoolHigh · 764 students
- Tippecanoe Middle SchoolMiddle · 564 students
- L. T. Ball Intermediate SchoolElementary · 543 students
- Bethel Middle SchoolMiddle · 526 students
- Bethel High SchoolHigh · 521 students
- Broadway Elementary SchoolElementary · 452 students
Other Bethel Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 7 states are named Bethel Elementary. Bethel Elementary School is the largest of the 11.
- Bethel ElementarySimpsonville, SC · 915 students
- Bethel ElementaryMidland, NC · 611 students
- Bethel Elementary SchoolShawnee, OK · 556 students
- Bethel ElementaryCanton, NC · 537 students
- Bethel ElementaryGloucester, VA · 494 students
Nearby schools
- Bethel High School0.4 mi · 521
- Bethel Middle School0.4 mi · 526
- Park Layne Elementary School2.9 mi · 420
- New Carlisle Elementary School3.3 mi · 495
- Charles Huber Elementary School4.5 mi · 610
- Rushmore Elementary School4.5 mi · 621
Frequently asked questions
About Bethel Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Bethel Elementary School?
Bethel Elementary School enrolls approximately 944 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Bethel Elementary School serve?
Bethel Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bethel Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bethel Elementary School is approximately 20.5:1 (46 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Bethel Elementary School?
Bethel Elementary School reports a student body of 82% White, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Bethel Elementary School?
Bethel Elementary School is overseen by Bethel Local in Miami County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.