Karaffa Elementary

As a very small primary school in Toronto, Ohio, Karaffa Elementary hosts 81 students from grade pre-K, run under Toronto City. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Karaffa Elementary sits 80% leaner than that benchmark.

Toronto City comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 838 students; Karaffa Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Karaffa Elementary lists that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 14% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Jefferson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $59,055 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Karaffa Elementary is one of 24 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 8,635 students).

Toronto Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

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