Bloom Carroll Intermediate School

Set in Carroll, Ohio, Bloom Carroll Intermediate School is an average-sized elementary campus, one of the schools within Bloom-Carroll Local. It instructs 545 students across grades 1 through 7. Enrollment runs roughly 35% bigger than the state mean of about 404.

Across the 4 schools in Bloom-Carroll Local (2,294 students total), Bloom Carroll Intermediate School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Bloom Carroll Intermediate School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Beyond that, the school shows 6% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Fairfield County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Fairfield County's rate of about 41%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bloom Carroll Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.2%, the actual is 77.3%, a residual of -2.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Fairfield County) reports that median household income runs about $90,966, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Fairfield County runs 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,447 students), of which Bloom Carroll Intermediate School is one.

The closest other public school is Bloom Carroll Primary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bloom Carroll Intermediate School comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Bloom Carroll Intermediate School's enrollment has rose 65% since 2018, when it stood at 331 (now 545). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 95% to 86%.

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