Melrose Elementary School

Melrose Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in Wooster, Ohio, operated by Wooster City. Current enrollment sits at 251 students spanning grades K through 4. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Melrose Elementary School sits 38% leaner than that benchmark.

Wooster City comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,222 students; Melrose Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Melrose Elementary School reports that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Melrose Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.8%, the actual is 67.0%, a residual of -1.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Wayne County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,574 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Wayne County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,479 students), Melrose Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Edgewood Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Melrose Elementary School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.0%.

Melrose Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Melrose Elementary School has edged down 17%, going from 304 students in 2018 to 251 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 71% across the same window.

On allk12, members of the Melrose Elementary School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.