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Johnstown 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 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 6 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 79% 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 Johnstown Elementary School
Johnstown Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Johnstown, Ohio, operated by Johnstown-Monroe Local. Current enrollment sits at 483 students spanning grades K through 3.
Within Johnstown-Monroe Local, which oversees 4 schools and 1,656 students, Johnstown Elementary School is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Johnstown Elementary School lists that nearly all students (86%) are White; the rest consists of 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, On paper, Johnstown Elementary School has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.7:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Licking County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Johnstown Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.2%, the actual is 79.4%, a residual of +0.2 points.
In the area at large, Licking County reports that the typical household earns roughly $84,426 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Licking County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,815 students), of which Johnstown Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: JOHNSTOWN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, around 1.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Johnstown Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Johnstown Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 71.8%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Johnstown Elementary School has contracted 36%, going from 752 students in 2018 to 483 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 2% to 9% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.
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- Johnstown High SchoolHigh · 488 students
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- Johnstown High SchoolHigh · 488 students
- Johnstown Middle SchoolMiddle · 412 students
- Northridge High SchoolHigh · 351 students
- JOHNSTOWN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLElementary · 273 students
- Northridge Middle SchoolMiddle · 270 students
- JOHNSTOWN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 273
- Johnstown Middle School1.2 mi · 412
- Johnstown High School1.3 mi · 488
- Northridge High School4.5 mi · 351
- Northridge Elementary4.5 mi · 546
- Northridge Middle School4.5 mi · 270