Phillips School

Phillips School is one of the intimate elementary-level communitys in Marietta, Ohio, operated by Marietta City, with 204 students on its rolls from grades K through 2. Enrollment runs roughly 50% smaller than the state mean of about 404.

Phillips School is one of 4 schools operated by Marietta City, a district that instructs 2,078 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Phillips School lists that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Phillips School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Washington County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,603 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Washington County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,355 students), Phillips School is one campus in the mix.

Marietta Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 44%: 363 students in 2018 compared to 204 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Phillips School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.