Orrville Elementary School

Orrville Elementary School operates as an average-sized primary school in Orrville, Ohio, part of Orrville City. Current enrollment sits at 514 students spanning grades K through 4. That puts it 27% above the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Orrville City comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,432 students; Orrville Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Orrville Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Orrville Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.6%, the actual is 67.3%, a residual of -0.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Wayne County shows the typical household earns roughly $73,574 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Wayne County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,479 students), Orrville Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Heartland Early Learning Program, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Orrville Elementary School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Orrville Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 65.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 24%: 678 students in 2018 compared to 514 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.