Graham Elementary School

Graham Elementary School is an elementary school of well-populated scale in Saint Paris, Ohio, overseen by Graham Local, caters to 735 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 82% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Graham Local comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,588 students; Graham Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Graham Elementary School logs that nearly all students (91%) are White; the rest breaks down as 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Champaign County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Roughly 44% of students at Graham Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Champaign County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Graham Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.1%; this one delivers 68.3%.

Across the wider county, Champaign County reports that median household earnings sit near $75,556, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Champaign County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,135 students), Graham Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Graham Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Graham Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 67.2%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Graham Elementary School has decreased 14%, going from 850 students in 2018 to 735 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 today.

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