Head Start

Head Start runs as a very small elementary school in Celina, Ohio. It reported 101 students in pre-K in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Ohio have about 404 students on average; enrollment here is 75% lower.

Celina City counts 3,694 students in its 8 schools, and Head Start is one of them.

More than half of the students at Head Start are White (69%). Other reported shares: 19% Pacific Islander, 7% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. That compares with about 95% White among all Mercer County residents. The diversity index for Head Start is 48%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

With 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 16.8:1. The average for elementary schools in Ohio is 17.9:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher.

In the wider Mercer County area, the median household earns about $76,782 a year, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Head Start shares Mercer County with 21 other public schools.

Head Start is about 0.2 miles from Celina Primary School, its nearest public school. Head Start has 6 other public schools within five miles.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Distant: in a town some distance from an urbanized area.

The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 3% decline, from 104 to 101. Its ratio of students to teachers was 20.8:1 in 2020-21, and 16.8:1 in 2024-25.

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