East Garfield Elementary School

As a medium-sized elementary school in Steubenville, Ohio, East Garfield Elementary School instructs 382 students from grades pre-K through 4, operated by Steubenville City.

Steubenville City comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,841 students; East Garfield Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, East Garfield Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 37% Black, 20% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, East Garfield Elementary School has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting East Garfield Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,055 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Jefferson County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,635 students), of which East Garfield Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Steubenville High School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 398 students in 2018 compared to 382 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 42% to 37% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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