Orchard Park Elementary School

Orchard Park Elementary School is one of the low-enrollment elementary-level communitys in Kettering, Ohio, part of Kettering City School District, with 294 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Orchard Park Elementary School sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Kettering City School District, which oversees 13 schools and 7,635 students, Orchard Park Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Orchard Park Elementary School lists that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 9% multiracial, 7% Black, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Roughly 49% of students at Orchard Park Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Orchard Park Elementary School ranks in the top 10% of Ohio public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 70.3%; Orchard Park Elementary School posts 84.7%, +14.4 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, Montgomery County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,139 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Orchard Park Elementary School is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kettering Fairmont High School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Orchard Park Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Orchard Park Elementary School comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 76.4%.

Orchard Park Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Orchard Park Elementary School has declined 18%, going from 357 students in 2018 to 294 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 84% to 77% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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