Jefferson Elementary

Jefferson Elementary is one of the heavily attended K-5 schools in Jefferson, Ohio, part of Jefferson Area Local, with 654 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 62% larger than typical.

Jefferson Elementary is one of 5 schools operated by Jefferson Area Local, a district that caters to 1,685 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Jefferson Elementary lists that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Ashtabula County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Jefferson Elementary has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Jefferson Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jefferson Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.3%; this one delivers 63.3%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Ashtabula County put median household income runs about $57,728, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across Ashtabula County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,023 students), Jefferson Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Jefferson Area Junior High School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Jefferson Elementary. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jefferson Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 66.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 9%: 601 students in 2018 compared to 654 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

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