McGuffey Elementary School

McGuffey Elementary School is an elementary school in Newark, Ohio, according to federal school records. It is open to students in kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 415 students.

McGuffey Elementary School is part of Newark City, where 14 schools serve 5,805 students.

Of every 100 students at McGuffey Elementary School, about 85 are White. After that, the student body is 10% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, and 3% Black. Census estimates put Licking County at about 86% White, close to the school's figure. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 27, compared with 70 nationally.

Its staff includes 29.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 14.1 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Ohio, the average ratio is 17.9:1.

Among Ohio public elementary schools, McGuffey Elementary School outscored 27%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.

Licking County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $84,426 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 29% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Public schools in Licking County number 63, with about 29,815 students.

Of the public schools around it, McGuffey Elementary School is closest to Wilson Middle School, about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

The NCES locale for McGuffey Elementary School is Suburb: Small, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.

Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 414 to 415. The ratio was 15.3:1 in 2020-21 and 14.1:1 in 2024-25.

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