Otsego Elementary School

As an expansive elementary campus in Tontogany, Ohio, Otsego Elementary School serves 788 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Otsego Local. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Otsego Elementary School sits 95% larger than that benchmark.

Otsego Local runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,637 students. Otsego Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Otsego Elementary School lists that nearly all students (90%) are White; the rest comes out to 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. Compared to Wood County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Otsego Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.6%, the actual is 69.0%, a residual of -7.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Wood County) records that median household earnings sit near $74,216, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Wood County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,968 students), of which Otsego Elementary School is one.

Otsego Junior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Otsego Elementary School at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 75.6%.

Otsego Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Otsego Elementary School has rose 3%, going from 764 students in 2018 to 788 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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