Isham Memorial Elementary School

Located at 325 Sunset Blvd, in Wadsworth, Ohio, Isham Memorial Elementary School is a tight-knit primary school that teaches 342 students (grades K through 4), overseen by Wadsworth City.

Wadsworth City comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 4,275 students; Isham Memorial Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Isham Memorial Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder breaks down as 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Isham Memorial Elementary School has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Medina County runs at roughly 26%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Isham Memorial Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.6%; this one delivers 80.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Medina County indicate median household income runs about $94,968, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Medina County runs 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,243 students), of which Isham Memorial Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Central Intermediate School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Isham Memorial Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Isham Memorial Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 77.9%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 349 students in 2018 compared to 342 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 95% to 84%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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