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Geo G Dodge 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 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 78% 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 Geo G Dodge Elementary School
As a well-populated middle-grades school in Twinsburg, Ohio, Geo G Dodge Elementary School serves 859 students from grades 4 through 6, part of Twinsburg City. That puts it 78% bigger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 482 students.
Across the 5 schools in Twinsburg City (3,854 students total), Geo G Dodge Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Geo G Dodge Elementary School shows that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% Black, 10% Asian, 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Summit County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 27% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Geo G Dodge Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 78.4%; this one delivers 79.6%.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Summit County indicate median household income runs about $71,622, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Geo G Dodge Elementary School is one of 149 public schools in Summit County (combined enrollment of about 69,214 students).
The closest other public school is R B Chamberlin Middle School, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Geo G Dodge Elementary School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 81.7%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 964 students in 2018 compared to 859 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 57% to 51% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 today.
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