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Glandorf Elementary School
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Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 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 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 86% 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 Glandorf Elementary School
Glandorf Elementary School is a K-5 school of average-sized scale in Ottawa, Ohio, run under Ottawa-Glandorf Local, caters to 515 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 27% larger than typical.
Glandorf Elementary School is one of 3 schools operated by Ottawa-Glandorf Local, a district that enrolls 1,500 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Glandorf Elementary School lists that nearly all students (97%) are White. Other groups include 2% Hispanic.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Glandorf Elementary School shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. An estimated 7% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Putnam County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Glandorf Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 86.2%, the actual is 87.5%, a residual of +1.3 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Putnam County) logs that median household income runs about $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%. Glandorf Elementary School is one of 23 public schools in Putnam County (combined enrollment of about 5,938 students).
Nearest neighbor: Ottawa Elementary School, around 1.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Glandorf Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 80.0%.
Glandorf Elementary School operates from a town-center location.
Over the past 7-year window. Glandorf Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 599 (now 515). Class-load math has tightened: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Glandorf Elementary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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