John Clem Elementary School

John Clem Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Newark, Ohio, overseen by Newark City. The school teaches 386 students in grades K through 5.

Newark City runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 5,805 students. John Clem Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, John Clem Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 77%. Beyond that, the school shows 12% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, John Clem Elementary School logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Licking County) records that the typical household earns roughly $84,426 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Licking County's 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,815 students), John Clem Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Newark High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

John Clem Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 23%: 500 students in 2018 compared to 386 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 86% to 77% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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