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Mercer Elementary School · Cincinnati, OH
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Ohio's State Tests, SY 2024-25

All grades, all students. % Proficient or Above.
English Language Arts
84.5%
State avg 59.8%
District avg 83.9%
County avg 54.3%
+2.0pp since 2021-22
Mathematics
86.0%
State avg 56.1%
District avg 84.6%
County avg 51.0%
+0.9pp since 2021-22
Science
82.0%
State avg 60.7%
District avg 87.5%
County avg 51.1%
-9.0pp since 2021-22
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 70.2%
District avg 91.0%
County avg 62.6%

What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level, about 86 of 100 do math at grade level, and about 82 of 100 are at grade level in science. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60, 56, and 61. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady and science scores are down about 9 points.

Rank: Mercer Elementary School places #155 of 673 Ohio elementary schools, and #20 of 38 in Hamilton County for state test proficiency.

BeatsExpectations

Demographically-adjusted score · methodology
Tier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
84.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
81.2%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.2pp
above demographic expectation

What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 81% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.

BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →

4-year history

All grades, all students. Mercer   Ohio avg

English Language Arts

58832021-2259852022-2361832023-2460842024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2584.5%83.9%54.3%59.8%
SY 2023-2482.7%85.1%54.7%60.6%
SY 2022-2385.3%86.0%52.4%59.3%
SY 2021-2282.5%84.4%50.9%58.2%

Mathematics

51852021-2253872022-2354852023-2456862024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2586.0%84.6%51.0%56.1%
SY 2023-2484.9%83.9%48.0%54.1%
SY 2022-2387.1%84.3%45.7%53.3%
SY 2021-2285.1%82.2%43.1%50.8%

Science

60912021-2260692022-2360852023-2461822024-25
YearSchoolDistrictCountyState
SY 2024-2582.0%87.5%51.1%60.7%
SY 2023-2485.2%86.9%48.8%59.9%
SY 2022-2368.6%84.4%48.5%60.2%
SY 2021-2291.0%88.3%48.3%59.6%

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How to read these scores

What is Ohio's State Tests?
Ohio's State Tests (OST) are administered each spring to public-school students in grades 3 through 8 in English Language Arts and Math, plus Science at grades 5 and 8. High school students take End-of-Course exams in Algebra I, Geometry, English II, Biology, US History, and US Government for graduation.
What does "% Proficient or Above" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at "Proficient", "Accomplished", or "Advanced" on Ohio's 5-level performance scale (Limited, Basic, Proficient, Accomplished, Advanced). Proficient and above is Ohio's grade-level benchmark; the cumulative rate is what feeds the school's Achievement Star Rating. A higher number is better.
What does 84.5% mean for English Language Arts at Mercer Elementary School?
It means about 84.5 percent of students tested at Mercer Elementary School performed at grade level or above on the Ohio's State Tests English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Ohio that year was 59.8%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Ohio, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, Ohio School Report Cards Achievement Component. Building-level results for Ohio's State Tests (OST) in ELA + Math (grades 3-8), Science (grades 5, 8), high-school End-of-Course exams (Algebra I, Biology, English II, US History, US Government). Headline metric is the cumulative Proficient-or-Above rate (top 3 of 5 OST performance levels).
How often is it updated?
Ohio's State Tests is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.

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