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Falls-Lenox Primary Elementary School
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 79% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Falls-Lenox Primary Elementary School
Falls-Lenox Primary Elementary School, a sprawling elementary-level community in Olmsted Falls, Ohio, part of Olmsted Falls City, hosts 704 students, covering grades 1 through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 74% above the state mean of about 404.
Falls-Lenox Primary Elementary School is one of 5 schools operated by Olmsted Falls City, a district that instructs 3,507 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Falls-Lenox Primary Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest reads as 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Cuyahoga County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Falls-Lenox Primary Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 78.6%; this one delivers 72.7%.
In the surrounding community, census data for Cuyahoga County shows median household income runs about $64,468, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Falls-Lenox Primary Elementary School is one of 352 public schools in Cuyahoga County (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students).
Olmsted Falls High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Falls-Lenox Primary Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Falls-Lenox Primary Elementary School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 78.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Falls-Lenox Primary Elementary School has stayed largely flat, going from 720 students in 2018 to 704 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 93% to 84%. Class-load math has grew: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 in 2025.
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