Fort Recovery Elementary School

Set in Fort Recovery, Ohio, Fort Recovery Elementary School is a mid-sized primary school, operated by Fort Recovery Local. It hosts 513 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 27% above typical.

Fort Recovery Local comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 997 students; Fort Recovery Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Fort Recovery Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%); the rest looks like 3% Hispanic. Compared to Mercer County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Fort Recovery Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.1:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 12% of students at Fort Recovery Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Mercer County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fort Recovery Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 84.1%, the actual is 85.0%, a residual of +0.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Mercer County) reports that median household income runs about $76,782, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Fort Recovery Elementary School is one of 22 public schools in Mercer County (combined enrollment of about 9,242 students).

Fort Recovery Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fort Recovery Elementary School at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 88.9%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Fort Recovery Elementary School's enrollment has expanded 6% since 2018, when it stood at 483 (now 513). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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