Kenwood Elementary School

Kenwood Elementary School is one of the low-enrollment elementary-level communitys in Bowling Green, Ohio, part of Bowling Green City School District, with 293 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Within Bowling Green City School District, which oversees 6 schools and 2,537 students, Kenwood Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Kenwood Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 79%. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Wood County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Kenwood Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 44% of students at Kenwood Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wood County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Kenwood Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 73.9%.

In the area at large, Wood County reports that median household earnings sit near $74,216, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Kenwood Elementary School is one of 38 public schools in Wood County (combined enrollment of about 19,968 students).

Nearest neighbor: Crim Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Kenwood Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Kenwood Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 71.8%.

Kenwood Elementary School operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Kenwood Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 28% since 2018, when it stood at 409 (now 293). The White share of enrollment fell from 83% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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