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Enrollment
515
Elementary
DISTRICT 453 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OTTAWA-GLANDORF LOCAL·NCES 390493703572
Glandorf Elementary School
140 Church St, Ottawa, OH 45875 · (419) 538-6880 · Putnam County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY32-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL515 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 76% of Ohio public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
35 students
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 62 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 58 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 73 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 21% smaller than its 8th grade class (73).
Student demographics
5%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 23% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Glandorf Elementary School→Ottawa-Glandorf High School
Based on grade levels within Ottawa-Glandorf Local. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
86.1%
OH avg 59.8% . -2.1pp since 2021
Math
88.6%
OH avg 56.1% . +2.7pp since 2021
What 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.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.1% | 88.6% |
| 2023-24 | 90.1% | 89.4% |
| 2022-23 | 85.9% | 88.0% |
| 2021-22 | 88.2% | 85.9% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
87.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
86.2%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.3pp
above demographic expectation
What 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Glandorf Elementary School
Glandorf Elementary School's state test result (87.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glandorf Elementary School this school | 515 | 6.8% | 87.5% |
| St Henry Elementary School Saint Henry | 489 | 6.7% | 94.4% |
| Normandy Elementary School Bay Village | 477 | 6.3% | N/A |
| Gurney Elementary School Chagrin Falls | 478 | 6.3% | 97.5% |
| Evening Street Elementary School Worthington | 490 | 2.9% | 90.8% |
| Fort Recovery Elementary School Fort Recovery | 513 | 12.5% | 85.0% |
Matched among Ohio elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Glandorf Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Putnam County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 87.5% | #84 of 673 | #2 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 88.6% | #124 of 1,569 ▼ 36 | #2 of 10 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.1% | #113 of 1,569 ▼ 54 | #3 of 10 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.3pp | #1,024 of 1,514 | #3 of 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 515 | #439 of 1,808 | #1 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #482 of 1,582 | #7 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 4.9% | #1,568 of 1,590 | #6 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.8% | #739 of 767 | #6 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.0% | #459 of 992 | #4 of 6 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
515
-37 (-7%) vs 2020
-5% since 1990-91, when it was 540
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 19.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 515 | 31.9 | 16.2:1 | 7% (35) |
| 2023-24 | 537 | 32.7 | 16.4:1 | 5% (27) |
| 2022-23 | 541 | 29.7 | 18.2:1 | 4% (23) |
| 2020-21 | 552 | 29 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 599 | 32.3 | 18.6:1 | 7% (43) |
| 2015-16 | 590 | 29 | 20.3:1 | 9% (52) |
| 2010-11 | 529 | 26 | 20.4:1 | 6% (30) |
| 2000-01 | 524 | 28 | 18.7:1 | 2% (8) |
| 1990-91 | 540 | 26 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Glandorf Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (599 to 515); teachers down 1% (32.3 to 31.9).
About Glandorf Elementary School
Among the schools in Ottawa, Ohio, is Glandorf Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. Enrollment totals 515 students across kindergarten through 8. That puts enrollment 27% above the 404-student average for elementary schools in Ohio.
Ottawa-Glandorf Local counts 3 schools and 1,500 students, including Glandorf Elementary School.
The share of students at Glandorf Elementary School who are White is 97%. The remaining students are 2% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 5, compared with 70 nationally.
Its staff includes 31.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 16.2 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Ohio, the average ratio is 17.9:1. Glandorf Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 7%. Among public schools in Putnam County, the average eligibility rate is 35%.
Among Ohio public elementary schools, Glandorf Elementary School outscored 76%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Glandorf Elementary School scores 87.5% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 86.2%.
For the population of Putnam County, the median household earns about $84,928 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Glandorf Elementary School shares Putnam County with 22 other public schools.
Ottawa Elementary School is about 1.6 miles from Glandorf Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 2 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Glandorf Elementary School ranks 3rd in a group of 7 nearby schools.
By NCES locale, the school is Town: Distant, or in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
Enrollment decreased 7% over 4 years, reaching 515 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 19.0:1 to 16.2:1.
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Putnam County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
34,314
Census ACS
Median income
$84,928
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
5,938 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ottawa-Glandorf Local
- Ottawa-Glandorf High SchoolHigh · 595 students
- Ottawa Elementary SchoolElementary · 390 students
- Ottawa-Glandorf Complex Elementary SchoolCombined
Other schools in Ottawa
- Ottawa-Glandorf High SchoolHigh · 595 students
- Ottawa Elementary SchoolElementary · 390 students
- Ottawa-Glandorf Complex Elementary SchoolCombined
Nearby schools
- Ottawa Elementary School1.6 mi · 390
- Ottawa-Glandorf High School1.7 mi · 595
- Miller City High School5.6 mi · 257
- Miller City Middle School5.6 mi · 119
- Miller City Elementary School5.6 mi · 240
- Leipsic Elementary School6.5 mi · 290
Frequently asked questions
About Glandorf Elementary SchoolHow large is Glandorf Elementary School?
Glandorf Elementary School enrolls approximately 515 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Glandorf Elementary School serve?
Glandorf Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many teachers does Glandorf Elementary School have?
Glandorf Elementary School employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Glandorf Elementary School?
Student demographics at Glandorf Elementary School are roughly 97% White, 2% Hispanic, 0% Two or more.
Is Glandorf Elementary School public or private?
Glandorf Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Ottawa-Glandorf Local.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.