Indian Riffle Elementary School

As an average-sized elementary campus in Kettering, Ohio, Indian Riffle Elementary School instructs 521 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Kettering City School District. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Indian Riffle Elementary School sits 29% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 13 schools in Kettering City School District (7,635 students total), Indian Riffle Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Indian Riffle Elementary School reports that White students make up the majority at 78%. Beyond that, the school lists 7% multiracial, 6% Black, 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Indian Riffle Elementary School has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 44% of students at Indian Riffle Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Indian Riffle Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 72.1%; Indian Riffle Elementary School posts 83.2%, +11.0 points above that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) records that the typical household earns roughly $66,139 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Indian Riffle Elementary School is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students).

Kettering Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Indian Riffle Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Indian Riffle Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 77.0%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Indian Riffle Elementary School has ticked down 13%, going from 601 students in 2018 to 521 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 82% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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