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Maple Dale Elementary School
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 95 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 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 94% 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 10 points, placing it in Ohio's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Maple Dale Elementary School
Located at 6100 Hagewa Dr, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Maple Dale Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that instructs 584 students (grades K through 4), one of the schools within Sycamore Community City. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Maple Dale Elementary School sits 45% larger than that benchmark.
Sycamore Community City runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 6,051 students. Maple Dale Elementary School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Maple Dale Elementary School shows that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 11% multiracial, 8% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black.
On the income-and-resources front, Maple Dale Elementary School logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 15% of students at Maple Dale Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hamilton County (around 34%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Maple Dale Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 83.2%; Maple Dale Elementary School posts 93.6%, +10.4 points above that line.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Hamilton County) reports that median household income runs about $72,470, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Hamilton County runs 212 public schools (combined enrollment of about 111,403 students), of which Maple Dale Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Edwin H Greene Intermediate Middle School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maple Dale Elementary School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Maple Dale Elementary School at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 80.5%.
Maple Dale Elementary School operates from a residential location.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 616 students in 2018 compared to 584 in 2025.
On the community side, the feed for Maple Dale Elementary School typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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