Monterey Elementary School

As a reasonably sized elementary campus in Grove City, Ohio, Monterey Elementary School serves 425 students from grades K through 4, part of South-Western City.

Across the 33 schools in South-Western City (21,873 students total), Monterey Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Monterey Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 10% Black, 8% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Franklin County's rate of about 41%.

After controlling for student poverty, Monterey Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.2%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Franklin County shows median household earnings sit near $75,176, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Monterey Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Richard Avenue Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Monterey Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 67.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Monterey Elementary School's enrollment has declined 16% since 2018, when it stood at 506 (now 425). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 72% to 65%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

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