Northmor Elementary School

Northmor Elementary School operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Galion, Ohio, run under Northmor Local. Current enrollment sits at 541 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 34% larger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Northmor Local comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 991 students; Northmor Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Northmor Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%); the rest comes out to 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Northmor Elementary School records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Northmor Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Morrow County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Northmor Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Ohio schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 56.7%; actual is 67.4%, +10.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Morrow County put the typical household earns roughly $75,283 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Morrow County runs 12 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,685 students), of which Northmor Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Northmor High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Northmor Elementary School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 63.7%.

Northmor Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northmor Elementary School has fell 11%, going from 611 students in 2018 to 541 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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