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How has Cherokee Elementary School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
791
Elementary
DISTRICT 627 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKOTA LOCAL·NCES 390461100441
Cherokee Elementary School
5345 Kyles Station Rd, Liberty Twp, OH 45011 · (513) 755-8200 · Butler County
GRADES 03–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL791 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
24.7:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.5:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
235 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 43%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 195 | 25% |
| Grade 4 | 186 | 24% |
| Grade 5 | 200 | 25% |
| Grade 6 | 210 | 27% |
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
78.0%
OH avg 59.8% . +3.2pp since 2021
Math
82.5%
OH avg 56.1% . +5.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 83 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 82.5% |
| 2023-24 | 78.8% | 83.8% |
| 2022-23 | 73.3% | 74.4% |
| 2021-22 | 74.8% | 77.1% |
% 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
81.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
77.6%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.7pp
above demographic expectation
What 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%.
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 Cherokee Elementary School
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherokee Elementary School this school | 791 | 29.7% | 81.3% |
| Wyandot Early Childhood School Liberty | 655 | 29.6% | N/A |
| Creekside Early Childhood School West Chester | 720 | 31.1% | N/A |
| Heritage Early Childhood School Liberty Twp | 598 | 33.9% | N/A |
| Alton Darby Elementary School Hilliard | 533 | 32.1% | N/A |
| VanGorden Elementary School Liberty Township | 670 | 28.1% | 82.1% |
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 Cherokee Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Butler County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.3% | #214 of 673 | #6 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.5% | #301 of 1,569 ▼ 66 | #6 of 42 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #330 of 1,569 ▲ 48 | #6 of 42 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.3pp | #642 of 1,514 | #16 of 41 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 791 | #88 of 1,808 | #3 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.7:1 | #1,546 of 1,582 | #49 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.3% | #373 of 1,590 | #25 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.7% | #518 of 767 | #26 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.0% | #207 of 561 | #10 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
791
+62 (+9%) vs 2020
-9% since 2000-01, when it was 869
Student : Teacher
24.7:1
was 26.0:1
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 | 791 | 32 | 24.7:1 | 30% (235) |
| 2023-24 | 803 | 31 | 25.9:1 | 26% (207) |
| 2022-23 | 802 | 31.5 | 25.5:1 | 20% (162) |
| 2020-21 | 729 | 28 | 26.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 676 | 31 | 21.8:1 | 20% (138) |
| 2015-16 | 719 | 31 | 23.2:1 | 22% (161) |
| 2010-11 | 807 | 36 | 22.4:1 | 21% (170) |
| 2000-01 | 869 | 50 | 17.4:1 | 2% (21) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cherokee Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 17% (676 to 791); teachers up 3% (31 to 32).
About Cherokee Elementary School
In Liberty Twp, Ohio, Cherokee Elementary School is a large elementary school. Enrollment totals 791 students across grades 3 through 6. On average, elementary schools in Ohio enroll around 404, and this school is 96% bigger than that mark.
Cherokee Elementary School falls under Lakota Local, which has 22 schools enrolling 17,853 students.
White students are 59% of those enrolled at Cherokee Elementary School. The rest of enrollment is 12% Hispanic, 12% Black, 10% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Butler County's population at about 76%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 60%.
Classroom staffing at Cherokee Elementary School totals 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 24.7:1. Compared with the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio, this school's ratio is higher. Federal data show 30% of students (235) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 42% for public schools in Butler County.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Cherokee Elementary School is +3.7 points: 81.3% actual, 77.6% predicted.
For the population of Butler County, the median household earns about $81,590 a year, about 33% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Across Butler County, 90 public schools serve about 59,107 students.
Lakota Plains Junior School is the nearest public school to Cherokee Elementary School, about 1.9 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 4 nearby schools that report test results, Cherokee Elementary School ranks 2nd on proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 791 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 729. The ratio was 26.0:1 in 2020-21 and 24.7:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Cherokee Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Butler County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
392,876
Census ACS
Median income
$81,590
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
33%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
90
59,107 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lakota Local
- Lakota West High SchoolHigh · 2,968 students
- Lakota East High SchoolHigh · 2,660 students
- Lakota Plains Junior SchoolMiddle · 745 students
- Endeavor Elementary SchoolElementary · 740 students
- Hopewell Early Childhood SchoolElementary · 727 students
- Creekside Early Childhood SchoolElementary · 720 students
Other schools in Liberty Twp
- Heritage Early Childhood SchoolElementary · 598 students
- Liberty Early Childhood SchoolElementary · 407 students
- VanGorden PreschoolElementary · 195 students
Other Cherokee Elementary schools
16 other US public schools in 12 states are named Cherokee Elementary. Cherokee Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 17.
- Cherokee Elementary SchoolCatoosa, OK · 857 students
- Cherokee Elementary SchoolParadise Valley, AZ · 690 students
- CHEROKEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHARDY, AR · 581 students
- Cherokee Elementary SchoolAlexandria, LA · 576 students
- Cherokee Elementary SchoolCedartown, GA · 575 students
Nearby schools
- Lakota Plains Junior School1.9 mi · 745
- VanGorden Preschool1.9 mi · 195
- VanGorden Elementary School1.9 mi · 670
- Liberty Early Childhood School2.3 mi · 407
- Butler Tech School of the Arts2.9 mi · 156
- D Russel Lee Career-Technology Center2.9 mi · 930
Frequently asked questions
About Cherokee Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Cherokee Elementary School?
Cherokee Elementary School enrolls approximately 791 students in grades 03-06.
What grades does Cherokee Elementary School serve?
Cherokee Elementary School serves grades 03-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cherokee Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cherokee Elementary School is approximately 24.7:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Cherokee Elementary School?
Student demographics at Cherokee Elementary School are roughly 59% White, 12% Hispanic, 12% Black, 10% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Cherokee Elementary School?
Cherokee Elementary School is overseen by Lakota Local in Butler County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.