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J F Burns Elementary School
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Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 5 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 79% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About J F Burns Elementary School
J F Burns Elementary School operates as a well-populated elementary campus in Kings Mills, Ohio, run under Kings Local. Current enrollment sits at 807 students spanning grades K through 4. That puts it 100% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.
Across the 7 schools in Kings Local (5,073 students total), J F Burns Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, J F Burns Elementary School logs that 65% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 20% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Warren County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, J F Burns Elementary School has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting J F Burns Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), J F Burns Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 78.7%; this one delivers 80.6%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Warren County put median household income runs about $110,132, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Warren County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,898 students), J F Burns Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Columbia Intermediate School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, J F Burns Elementary School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 83.6%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 7%: 751 students in 2018 compared to 807 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 79% to 65%.
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