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Enrollment
477
Elementary
DISTRICT 401 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KETTERING CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 390441801107
Oakview Elementary School
4001 Ackerman Blvd, Kettering, OH 45429 · (937) 499-1870 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL477 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
219 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 36 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
80.4%
OH avg 59.8% . +4.0pp since 2021
Math
85.9%
OH avg 56.1% . +3.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 80.4% | 85.9% |
| 2023-24 | 82.5% | 85.2% |
| 2022-23 | 78.9% | 86.4% |
| 2021-22 | 76.4% | 82.6% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of OH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
82.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.5%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 71% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 11 points, placing it in Ohio's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Oakview Elementary School
Oakview Elementary School's state test result (82.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakview Elementary School this school | 477 | 45.9% | 82.3% |
| Southdale Elementary School Kettering | 530 | 44.3% | 80.0% |
| Amherst Elementary School Massillon | 462 | 49.6% | 75.1% |
| Amity Elementary School Cincinnati | 569 | 48.2% | 67.5% |
| Indian Riffle Elementary School Kettering | 521 | 44.1% | 83.2% |
| Whiteford Elementary School Toledo | 418 | 48.6% | 66.9% |
Matched among Ohio elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Oakview Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.3% | #193 of 673 | #8 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.9% | #198 of 1,569 ▼ 8 | #4 of 76 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 80.4% | #249 of 1,569 ▲ 24 | #11 of 76 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.7pp | #689 of 1,514 | #32 of 69 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 477 | #557 of 1,808 | #32 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #516 of 1,582 | #15 of 75 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.5% | #642 of 1,590 | #43 of 76 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.9% | #326 of 767 | #21 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.8% | #410 of 561 | #28 of 39 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
477
+33 (+7%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 509
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 18.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 477 | 29.2 | 16.3:1 | 46% (219) |
| 2023-24 | 479 | 25.2 | 19.0:1 | 42% (200) |
| 2022-23 | 455 | 24.7 | 18.4:1 | 33% (152) |
| 2020-21 | 444 | 24 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 455 | 22.8 | 19.9:1 | 32% (145) |
| 2015-16 | 463 | 22 | 21.1:1 | 36% (168) |
| 2010-11 | 466 | 21 | 22.2:1 | 36% (166) |
| 2000-01 | 412 | 25 | 16.5:1 | 10% (43) |
| 1990-91 | 509 | 27 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oakview Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (455 to 477); teachers up 28% (22.8 to 29.2).
About Oakview Elementary School
As a mid-sized elementary school, Oakview Elementary School serves students in Kettering, Ohio. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 477 students.
Kettering City School District has 13 schools and 7,635 students, and Oakview Elementary School is one of those schools.
More than half of enrollment at Oakview Elementary School is White: 73%. Other groups include 9% Black, 8% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Oakview Elementary School scores 44%.
Teacher count: 29.2 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 16.3:1. The gap from the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio is 1.5 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 46%.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Oakview Elementary School ranks in the top 10% in Ohio. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 82.3%, against a prediction of 71.5%.
In the wider Montgomery County area, median household income comes to about $66,139, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Montgomery County's 160 public schools enroll about 74,487 students and include Oakview Elementary School.
Oakview Elementary School is about 0.6 miles from Van Buren Middle School, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Oakview Elementary School ranks 3rd of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 82.3% against a local average of 76.1%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Small: inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment rose from 444 to 477, a 7% gain. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 18.5:1 to 16.3:1.
The Oakview Elementary School discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
536,096
Census ACS
Median income
$66,139
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
74,487 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Kettering City School District
- Kettering Fairmont High SchoolHigh · 2,445 students
- Kettering Middle SchoolMiddle · 982 students
- J F Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 602 students
- Van Buren Middle SchoolMiddle · 598 students
- Southdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 530 students
- Indian Riffle Elementary SchoolElementary · 521 students
Other schools in Kettering
- Kettering Fairmont High SchoolHigh · 2,445 students
- Kettering Middle SchoolMiddle · 982 students
- Dayton Regional STEM SchoolHigh · 801 students
- J F Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 602 students
- Van Buren Middle SchoolMiddle · 598 students
- Southdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 530 students
Other Oakview Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 8 states are named Oakview Elementary. Oakview Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 10.
- Oakview ElementarySimpsonville, SC · 887 students
- Oakview ElementaryApex, NC · 873 students
- Oakview Elementary SchoolWEST DEPTFORD, NJ · 475 students
- Oakview Elementary SchoolMUSKEGON, MI · 438 students
- Oakview Elementary SchoolStoneboro, PA · 348 students
Nearby schools
- Van Buren Middle School0.6 mi · 598
- Kettering Fairmont High School0.9 mi · 2,445
- Orchard Park Elementary School1.0 mi · 294
- Beavertown Elementary School1.5 mi · 380
- Julian & Marjorie Lange School Elementary School1.5 mi · 130
- J F Kennedy Elementary School1.8 mi · 602
Frequently asked questions
About Oakview Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Oakview Elementary School?
Oakview Elementary School enrolls approximately 477 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Oakview Elementary School serve?
Oakview Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Oakview Elementary School?
Approximately 16.3:1 students per teacher at Oakview Elementary School.
How diverse is Oakview Elementary School?
Oakview Elementary School reports a student body of 73% White, 7% Hispanic, 9% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Oakview Elementary School public or private?
Oakview Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Kettering City School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.