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Fredericktown 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 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 58% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Ohio's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Fredericktown Elementary School
Located at 111 Stadium Drive, in Fredericktown, Ohio, Fredericktown Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary-level community that caters to 535 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Fredericktown Local. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Fredericktown Elementary School sits 32% bigger than that benchmark.
Within Fredericktown Local, which oversees 3 schools and 1,106 students, Fredericktown Elementary School is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Fredericktown Elementary School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). Other groups include 2% Hispanic. Compared to Knox County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Knox County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fredericktown Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 57.8%; Fredericktown Elementary School posts 77.1%, +19.3 points above that line.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Knox County put median household income runs about $73,878, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Knox County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,439 students), Fredericktown Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Fredericktown Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fredericktown Elementary School has ticked down 3%, going from 553 students in 2018 to 535 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 today.
On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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Related schools
- Fredericktown High SchoolHigh · 291 students
- Fredericktown Middle SchoolMiddle · 280 students
- Fredericktown High SchoolHigh · 291 students
- Fredericktown Middle SchoolMiddle · 280 students
- Fredericktown Middle School0.0 mi · 280
- Fredericktown High School0.0 mi · 291
- Dan Emmett Elementary School5.9 mi · 244
- Pleasant Street Elementary School6.7 mi · 329
- East Elementary School7.2 mi · 238
- Columbia Elementary School7.3 mi · 244