Newport Elementary School

Newport Elementary School is an elementary school of intimate scale in Newport, Ohio, run under Frontier Local, hosting 217 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Newport Elementary School sits 46% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Frontier Local, which oversees 4 schools and 540 students, Newport Elementary School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Newport Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%); the rest looks like 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household income runs about $63,603, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Newport Elementary School is one of 26 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 7,355 students).

Nearest neighbor: St. Marys Elementary School, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Newport Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Newport Elementary School's enrollment has rose 18% since 2018, when it stood at 184 (now 217). Class-load math has rose: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.