Columbus Grove Elementary School

Set in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Columbus Grove Elementary School is a compact primary school, operated by Columbus Grove Local. It hosts 256 students across grades K through 4. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Columbus Grove Elementary School sits 37% below that benchmark.

Columbus Grove Local comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 726 students; Columbus Grove Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Columbus Grove Elementary School lists that nearly all students (82%) are White. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Putnam County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Putnam County indicate median household earnings sit near $84,928, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Putnam County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,938 students), of which Columbus Grove Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Columbus Grove Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Columbus Grove Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Columbus Grove Elementary School has edged down 15%, going from 302 students in 2018 to 256 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 82% across the same window.

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