Liberty-Benton Elementary School

Set in Findlay, Ohio, Liberty-Benton Elementary School is an expansive K-5 school, run under Liberty-Benton Local. It instructs 620 students across grades K through 4. That puts it 53% bigger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Liberty-Benton Local runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,640 students. Liberty-Benton Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Liberty-Benton Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school records 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Hancock County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 22% of students at Liberty-Benton Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Hancock County (around 47%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Liberty-Benton Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.3%, the actual is 83.4%, a residual of +3.1 points.

Around the school, Hancock County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,141 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Hancock County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,975 students), of which Liberty-Benton Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Liberty-Benton Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Liberty-Benton Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Liberty-Benton Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 74.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Liberty-Benton Elementary School has decreased 9%, going from 682 students in 2018 to 620 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share increased from 87% to 91%. Class-load math has grew: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.