Cornerstone Elementary School

Set in Wooster, Ohio, Cornerstone Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, overseen by Wooster City. It enrolls 347 students across grades K through 4.

Across the 7 schools in Wooster City (3,222 students total), Cornerstone Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Cornerstone Elementary School reports that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 10% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 93% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Cornerstone Elementary School records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Wayne County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cornerstone Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.8%, the actual is 51.7%, a residual of -7.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Wayne County put the typical household earns roughly $73,574 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Wayne County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,479 students), of which Cornerstone Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wooster Littlest Generals Preschool, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cornerstone Elementary School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.0%.

Cornerstone Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Cornerstone Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 383 (now 347). Over the same period, the White share increased from 78% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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