Celina Elementary School

Celina Elementary School is a roomy K-5 school in Celina, Ohio, part of Celina City. The school educates 1,224 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Celina Elementary School sits 203% larger than that benchmark.

Celina City runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 3,694 students. Celina Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Celina Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest looks like 7% Pacific Islander, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 95% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Mercer County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Celina Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.6%, the actual is 71.4%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Mercer County shows median household income runs about $76,782, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Mercer County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,242 students), Celina Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Celina Intermediate Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Celina Elementary School's enrollment has rose 208% since 2018, when it stood at 397 (now 1,224). Class-load math has narrowed: from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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