Carlisle Primary Elementary School

Carlisle Primary Elementary School is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in Carlisle, Ohio, operated by Carlisle Local, educateing 526 students in grades pre-K through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 30% larger than the state mean of about 404.

Within Carlisle Local, which oversees 4 schools and 1,546 students, Carlisle Primary Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Carlisle Primary Elementary School reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Carlisle Primary Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Warren County (around 24%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Carlisle Primary Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.7%; this one delivers 77.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Warren County shows the typical household earns roughly $110,132 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Carlisle Primary Elementary School is one of 45 public schools in Warren County (combined enrollment of about 39,898 students).

Carlisle Intermediate Elementary 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, Carlisle Primary Elementary School comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 64.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 34%: 392 students in 2018 compared to 526 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 94% to 90% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 20.6:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 today.

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