Northwood Elementary

Northwood Elementary is one of the sprawling elementary schools in Marysville, Ohio, run under Marysville Exempted Village, with 617 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 53% above typical.

Marysville Exempted Village comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,781 students; Northwood Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Northwood Elementary lists that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 11% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. 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, Northwood Elementary lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. An estimated 19% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Northwood Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 81.6%; this one delivers 81.1%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Union County indicate the typical household earns roughly $112,322 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Northwood Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Creekview Intermediate Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Northwood Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Northwood Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 77.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Northwood Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 39% since 2018, when it stood at 443 (now 617). The White share of enrollment shrank from 86% to 75% over that span.

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