Enrollment
291
Elementary
DISTRICT 352 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PLAIN LOCAL·NCES 390499303758
Charles L Warstler Elementary School
2500 Schneider St NE, Canton, OH 44721 · (330) 491-3770 · Stark County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL291 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.5:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
161 students
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 43%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 47 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 29% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 19% smaller than its 4th grade class (58).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Charles L Warstler Elementary School→Glenwood Intermediate School→Oakwood Middle School→GlenOak High School
Based on grade levels within Plain Local. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
61.0%
OH avg 59.8% . -5.2pp since 2021
Math
64.5%
OH avg 56.1% . -3.7pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 5 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.0% | 64.5% |
| 2023-24 | 62.1% | 63.5% |
| 2022-23 | 58.4% | 71.5% |
| 2021-22 | 66.2% | 68.3% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.9%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Charles L Warstler Elementary School
Charles L Warstler Elementary School's state test result (62.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles L Warstler Elementary School this school | 291 | 55.3% | 62.8% |
| Ransom H Barr Elementary School Canton | 362 | 60.2% | 74.9% |
| Avondale Elementary School Canton | 257 | 51.4% | 83.2% |
| Frazer Elementary School Canton | 259 | 49.4% | 85.0% |
| Walls Elementary School Kent | 355 | 51.5% | 68.9% |
| Longcoy Elementary School Kent | 280 | 59.6% | 71.2% |
Matched among Ohio elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Charles L Warstler Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Stark County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.8% | #573 of 673 | #18 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.5% | #808 of 1,569 ▼ 8 | #29 of 44 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #894 of 1,569 ▲ 32 | #32 of 44 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.4pp | #190 of 1,514 | #7 of 43 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 291 | #1,322 of 1,808 | #40 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.1:1 | #1,122 of 1,582 | #31 of 47 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.2% | #560 of 1,590 | #20 of 47 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.3% | #176 of 767 | #4 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.3% | #344 of 992 | #2 of 21 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
291
+34 (+13%) vs 2020
-43% since 1990-91, when it was 510
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
was 17.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 291 | 15.2 | 19.1:1 | 55% (161) |
| 2023-24 | 297 | 15.3 | 19.4:1 | 57% (170) |
| 2022-23 | 295 | 15.3 | 19.3:1 | 51% (149) |
| 2020-21 | 257 | 15 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 352 | 15 | 23.5:1 | 51% (178) |
| 2015-16 | 345 | 14 | 24.6:1 | 48% (165) |
| 2010-11 | 316 | 13 | 24.3:1 | 50% (158) |
| 2000-01 | 484 | 27 | 17.9:1 | 25% (120) |
| 1990-91 | 510 | 23 | 22.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Charles L Warstler Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (352 to 291); teachers up 2% (15 to 15.2).
About Charles L Warstler Elementary School
Charles L Warstler Elementary School is a small elementary school serving families in Canton, Ohio. School enrollment was 291 students in 2024-25, in kindergarten through 4. The average among elementary schools in Ohio is roughly 404 students; this school is 28% smaller than that.
Plain Local runs Charles L Warstler Elementary School along with 8 other schools, enrolling 5,874 students in total.
White students make up a majority at Charles L Warstler Elementary School, at 68%. The remaining shares are 17% Black and 12% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Stark County's population at about 85%. Pick two students at random and there is a 49% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
With 15.2 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Charles L Warstler Elementary School was 19.1:1. This ratio sits 1.2 above the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 55%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Stark County is 36%.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Charles L Warstler Elementary School would score about 67.9%. It scores 62.8%, 5.1 points below that figure.
In Stark County (population about 373,713), the median household income is $67,934, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. There are 101 public schools in Stark County, enrolling about 53,798 students in all.
The next-closest public school is Oakwood Middle School, about 0.2 miles away. Charles L Warstler Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools average 76.6% on proficiency, and Charles L Warstler Elementary School is below that at 62.8%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment climbed 13% from its 2020-21 level of 257. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 17.1:1 to 19.1:1.
The Charles L Warstler Elementary School community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Stark County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
373,713
Census ACS
Median income
$67,934
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
101
53,798 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Plain Local
- GlenOak High SchoolHigh · 2,086 students
- Oakwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 858 students
- Glenwood Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 817 students
- Middlebranch Elementary SchoolElementary · 534 students
- Robert A. Taft Elementary SchoolElementary · 410 students
- Ransom H Barr Elementary SchoolElementary · 362 students
Other schools in Canton
- GlenOak High SchoolHigh · 2,086 students
- McKinley High SchoolHigh · 2,047 students
- Oakwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 858 students
- Glenwood Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 817 students
- Canton South High SchoolHigh · 774 students
- Faircrest Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 747 students
Nearby schools
- Oakwood Middle School0.2 mi · 858
- GlenOak High School0.7 mi · 2,086
- Ransom H Barr Elementary School1.2 mi · 362
- Portage Collaborative Montessori School1.3 mi · 187
- Middlebranch Elementary School1.6 mi · 534
- Frazer Elementary School2.6 mi · 259
Frequently asked questions
About Charles L Warstler Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Charles L Warstler Elementary School?
Charles L Warstler Elementary School enrolls approximately 291 students in grades KG-04.
Is Charles L Warstler Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Charles L Warstler Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Charles L Warstler Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Charles L Warstler Elementary School is approximately 19.1:1 (15 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Charles L Warstler Elementary School?
Charles L Warstler Elementary School reports a student body of 68% White, 1% Hispanic, 17% Black, 0% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Charles L Warstler Elementary School?
Charles L Warstler Elementary School is overseen by Plain Local in Stark County.
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