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Morgan 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 91 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 93 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 80% 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 Morgan Elementary School
Morgan Elementary School is a mid-tier primary school in Hamilton, Ohio, part of Ross Local. The school serves 385 students in grades pre-K through 3.
Ross Local comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,607 students; Morgan Elementary School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Morgan Elementary School lists that nearly all students (97%) are White. By comparison, Butler County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Morgan Elementary School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Butler County (around 42%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Morgan Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.6%, the actual is 87.4%, a residual of +7.8 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Butler County shows the typical household earns roughly $81,590 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Morgan Elementary School is one of 90 public schools in Butler County (combined enrollment of about 59,107 students).
Crosby Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.1 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Morgan Elementary School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 75.8%.
Morgan Elementary School operates from a rural location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Morgan Elementary School has shrank 26%, going from 523 students in 2018 to 385 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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