Katherine Thomas Elementary School

Set in Windham, Ohio, Katherine Thomas Elementary School is a compact elementary school, operated by Windham Exempted Village. It hosts 196 students across grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 51% below typical.

Within Windham Exempted Village, which oversees 3 schools and 454 students, Katherine Thomas Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Katherine Thomas Elementary School lists that White students make up the majority at 76%. Other groups include 11% multiracial, 9% Black, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Portage County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Portage County indicate median household income runs about $75,766, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Portage County runs 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,638 students), of which Katherine Thomas Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Windham High School, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Katherine Thomas Elementary School's enrollment has contracted 3% since 2018, when it stood at 203 (now 196). Class-load math has loosened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Katherine Thomas Elementary School typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.