Kean Elementary School

Set in Wooster, Ohio, Kean Elementary School is a small K-5 school, run under Wooster City. It serves 313 students across grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 23% smaller than the state mean of about 404.

Wooster City runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,222 students. Kean Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Kean Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest consists of 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Kean Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 77.6%; this one delivers 76.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Wayne County) reports that median household earnings sit near $73,574, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Kean Elementary School is one of 45 public schools in Wayne County (combined enrollment of about 14,479 students).

Wooster High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kean Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kean Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 61.1%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Kean Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 5% since 2018, when it stood at 330 (now 313). The White share of enrollment shrank from 94% to 88% over that span.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.