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Centerburg Elementary 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 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 81% 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 Centerburg Elementary School
Centerburg Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Centerburg, Ohio, operated by Centerburg Local, educates 441 students, covering grades K through 5.
Centerburg Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Centerburg Local, a district that instructs 983 students overall.
On demographics, Centerburg Elementary School logs that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 3% multiracial. Compared to Knox County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, Centerburg Elementary School logs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.2:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 30% of students at Centerburg Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Knox County's rate of about 54%.
After controlling for student poverty, Centerburg Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 77.6%; this one delivers 80.6%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Knox County) records that the typical household earns roughly $73,878 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Knox County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,439 students), Centerburg Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Centerburg Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Centerburg Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 68.0%.
Centerburg Elementary School operates from a low-density location.
Looking at the recent track record. Centerburg Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 520 (now 441). Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.
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