Fort Jennings Elementary School

Fort Jennings Elementary School is an elementary school of tiny scale in Fort Jennings, Ohio, overseen by Jennings Local, caters to 148 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 63% smaller than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Jennings Local comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 322 students; Fort Jennings Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fort Jennings Elementary School records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (99%).

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Fort Jennings Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fort Jennings Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 76.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.3%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Putnam County shows median household earnings sit near $84,928, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Putnam County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,938 students), of which Fort Jennings Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fort Jennings High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Fort Jennings Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fort Jennings Elementary School at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 80.1%.

Fort Jennings Elementary School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Fort Jennings Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 28% since 2018, when it stood at 206 (now 148). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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