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Best kept secret on campus at Kirkersville Elementary School?
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Enrollment
483
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTHWEST LICKING LOCAL·NCES 390480403095
Kirkersville Elementary School
215 N 5th St, Kirkersville, OH 43033 · (740) 927-7281 · Licking County
GRADES KG–03ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL483 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.1:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
36%
175 students
DISTRICT 42% · 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
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
73.5%
OH avg 59.8% . +3.0pp since 2021
Math
77.6%
OH avg 56.1% . +1.1pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
77.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
75.1%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
483
-142 (-23%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 18.4:1
% White
75%
was 86%
% Hispanic
2%
was 2%
% Black
4%
was 4%
% Asian
12%
was 1%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Kirkersville Elementary School
Kirkersville Elementary School, a mid-sized primary school in Kirkersville, Ohio, part of Southwest Licking Local, instructs 483 students, covering grades K through 3.
Southwest Licking Local comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,039 students; Kirkersville Elementary School is among them.
On demographics, Kirkersville Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 12% Asian, 7% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.
On the resource side, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kirkersville Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.1%, the actual is 77.0%, a residual of +1.9 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Licking County put the typical household earns roughly $84,426 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kirkersville Elementary School is one of 63 public schools in Licking County (combined enrollment of about 29,815 students).
Nearest neighbor: Watkins Middle School, around 2.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kirkersville Elementary School at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 72.5%.
Kirkersville Elementary School operates from a small-town location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 23%: 625 students in 2018 compared to 483 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 86% to 75% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.
On allk12, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Licking County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
181,837
Census ACS
Median income
$84,426
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
63
29,815 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Southwest Licking Local
- Watkins Memorial High SchoolHigh · 1,397 students
- Watkins Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,147 students
- Watkins Intermediate SchoolElementary · 801 students
- Etna ElementaryElementary · 511 students
- Pataskala Elementary SchoolElementary · 457 students
- Southwest Licking Early Learning CenterElementary · 168 students
Nearby schools
- Watkins Middle School2.7 mi · 1,147
- Watkins Intermediate School3.4 mi · 801
- Watkins Memorial High School3.4 mi · 1,397
- Southwest Licking Early Learning Center4.3 mi · 168
- SWL Digital Academy4.5 mi · 75
- Pataskala Elementary School4.7 mi · 457
Frequently asked questions
About Kirkersville Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Kirkersville Elementary School?
Kirkersville Elementary School enrolls approximately 483 students in grades KG-03.
What age range does Kirkersville Elementary School serve?
Kirkersville Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 03.
How many teachers does Kirkersville Elementary School have?
Kirkersville Elementary School employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.3:1.
How diverse is Kirkersville Elementary School?
Kirkersville Elementary School reports a student body of 75% White, 2% Hispanic, 4% Black, 12% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Kirkersville Elementary School in?
Kirkersville Elementary School is part of Southwest Licking Local.
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