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.