Dundee Elementary School

Dundee Elementary School is a micro-enrollment elementary campus in Dundee, Ohio, one of the schools within Garaway Local. The school works with 155 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 62% smaller than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Across the 5 schools in Garaway Local (1,055 students total), Dundee Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Dundee Elementary School logs that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Dundee Elementary School has 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Dundee Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 27% of students at Dundee Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Tuscarawas County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Dundee Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Ohio schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 78.6%; actual is 89.3%, +10.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Tuscarawas County) records that median household income runs about $65,044, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Tuscarawas County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,660 students), Dundee Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Strasburg-Franklin High School, around 4.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Dundee Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 77.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 3%: 160 students in 2018 compared to 155 in 2025.

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