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Alumni: what's one memory from Kensington Intermediate Elementary School that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
586
Elementary
DISTRICT 414 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKY RIVER CITY·NCES 390447001575
Kensington Intermediate Elementary School
20140 Lake Rd, Rocky River, OH 44116 · (440) 356-6770 · Cuyahoga County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL586 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 98% of Ohio public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.0:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
90 students
DISTRICT 15% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 195 | 33% |
| Grade 4 | 187 | 32% |
| Grade 5 | 204 | 35% |
Student demographics
20%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 23% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Rocky River City. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
93.7%
OH avg 59.8% . +2.3pp since 2021
Math
96.7%
OH avg 56.1% . +4.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 97 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.7% | 96.7% |
| 2023-24 | 93.6% | 94.5% |
| 2022-23 | 92.5% | 94.4% |
| 2021-22 | 91.4% | 92.7% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of OH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
95.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
83.0%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 95% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 83% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 12 points, placing it in Ohio's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Kensington Intermediate Elementary School
Kensington Intermediate Elementary School's state test result (95.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kensington Intermediate Elementary School this school | 586 | 15.4% | 95.1% |
| Goldwood Primary Elementary School Rocky River | 575 | 14.8% | N/A |
| Buckeye Valley West Elementary School Ostrander | 648 | 13.3% | 82.8% |
| Mariemont Elementary School Cincinnati | 514 | 15.6% | 92.1% |
| Ayer Elementary School Cincinnati | 595 | 16.3% | 86.8% |
| Ralph E. Waite Elementary Medina | 500 | 11.8% | 82.4% |
Matched among Ohio elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Kensington Intermediate Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Cuyahoga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 95.1% | #10 of 673 | #4 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 96.7% | #15 of 1,569 ▲ 13 | #5 of 172 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.7% | #16 of 1,569 ▲ 8 | #5 of 172 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.2pp | #731 of 1,514 | #105 of 167 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 586 | #297 of 1,808 | #20 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #884 of 1,582 | #99 of 158 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.2% | #1,156 of 1,590 | #112 of 158 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.4% | #682 of 767 | #36 of 42 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.3% | #883 of 992 | #90 of 98 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
586
+58 (+11%) vs 2020
+32% since 1990-91, when it was 443
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 16.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 586 | 32.6 | 18.0:1 | 15% (90) |
| 2023-24 | 593 | 33.1 | 17.9:1 | 15% (86) |
| 2022-23 | 596 | 31.1 | 19.1:1 | 13% (76) |
| 2020-21 | 528 | 33 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 606 | 35.1 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 635 | 35 | 18.1:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2010-11 | 556 | 32 | 17.4:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 586 | 36 | 16.3:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 443 | 21 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kensington Intermediate Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (606 to 586); teachers down 7% (35.1 to 32.6).
About Kensington Intermediate Elementary School
A mid-sized elementary school in Rocky River, Ohio, Kensington Intermediate Elementary School is part of Rocky River City. It offers grades 3 through 5 and has 586 students enrolled. That is 45% larger than the average of about 404 students for elementary schools in Ohio.
Rocky River City has 5 schools; together they serve 2,606 students.
The share of students at Kensington Intermediate Elementary School who are White is 89%. Other students are 5% multiracial and 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Cuyahoga County residents are about 58% White. A diversity index of 20% means there is a 20% chance two randomly chosen students at Kensington Intermediate Elementary School are from different groups.
With 32.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 18.0:1. The ratio is within a point of the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Kensington Intermediate Elementary School, 15% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Cuyahoga County average 27%.
Among Ohio public elementary schools, Kensington Intermediate Elementary School outscored 98%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Kensington Intermediate Elementary School is in the top 10% of Ohio schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 83.0%. The school's actual rate is 95.1%, 12.1 points higher.
Cuyahoga County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $64,468 a year, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Cuyahoga County number 352, with about 155,924 students.
Rocky River Early Childhood Center at Beach School, about 0.4 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 84.5%; Kensington Intermediate Elementary School's is 95.1%, ranking 1st of 7.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 11%. By 2024-25, the school had 18.0 students per teacher, compared with 16.0 in 2020-21.
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Cuyahoga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,245,873
Census ACS
Median income
$64,468
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
352
155,924 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rocky River City
- Rocky River High SchoolHigh · 792 students
- Goldwood Primary Elementary SchoolElementary · 575 students
- Rocky River Middle SchoolMiddle · 573 students
- Rocky River Early Childhood Center at Beach SchoolElementary · 80 students
Other schools in Rocky River
- Rocky River High SchoolHigh · 792 students
- Goldwood Primary Elementary SchoolElementary · 575 students
- Rocky River Middle SchoolMiddle · 573 students
- Rocky River Early Childhood Center at Beach SchoolElementary · 80 students
Nearby schools
- Rocky River Early Childhood Center at Beach School0.4 mi · 80
- Rocky River Middle School0.6 mi · 573
- Rocky River High School0.8 mi · 792
- Horace Mann Elementary School1.2 mi · 269
- Harding Middle School1.7 mi · 446
- Goldwood Primary Elementary School1.8 mi · 575
Frequently asked questions
About Kensington Intermediate Elementary SchoolHow large is Kensington Intermediate Elementary School?
Kensington Intermediate Elementary School enrolls approximately 586 students in grades 03-05.
What age range does Kensington Intermediate Elementary School serve?
Kensington Intermediate Elementary School serves students from grade 03 through grade 05.
How many teachers does Kensington Intermediate Elementary School have?
Kensington Intermediate Elementary School employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Kensington Intermediate Elementary School?
Student demographics at Kensington Intermediate Elementary School are roughly 89% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Kensington Intermediate Elementary School?
Kensington Intermediate Elementary School is overseen by Rocky River City in Cuyahoga County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.