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Buckeye Primary 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 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 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 down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 78% 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 Buckeye Primary School
Located at 3180 Columbia Rd, in Medina, Ohio, Buckeye Primary School is a reasonably sized primary school that instructs 581 students (grades K through 3), run under Buckeye Local. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Buckeye Primary School sits 44% larger than that benchmark.
Across the 13 schools in Buckeye Local (5,091 students total), Buckeye Primary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Buckeye Primary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Beyond that, the school lists 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Buckeye Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.8%, the actual is 82.2%, a residual of +4.4 points.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Medina County put median household income runs about $94,968, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Medina County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,243 students), of which Buckeye Primary School is one.
Buckeye Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Buckeye Primary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 78.7%.
Buckeye Primary School operates from a countryside location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Buckeye Primary School has decreased 5%, going from 612 students in 2018 to 581 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.
On this page, members of the Buckeye Primary School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Medina County at a glance
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