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Mill Valley 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 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 15 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 78% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Mill Valley Elementary School
Mill Valley Elementary School is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in Marysville, Ohio, part of Marysville Exempted Village, with 403 students on its rolls from grades K through 4.
Marysville Exempted Village runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,781 students. Mill Valley Elementary School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Mill Valley Elementary School records that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment; the rest reads as 12% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Union County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Mill Valley Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Union County (around 19%), the school's rate is north of typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mill Valley Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 77.7%; this one delivers 74.1%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Union County put median household earnings sit near $112,322, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Union County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,597 students), of which Mill Valley Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Creekview Intermediate Elementary School, around 0.3 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mill Valley Elementary School at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 78.1%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mill Valley Elementary School has increased 7%, going from 376 students in 2018 to 403 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 86% to 76% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.
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