Plain City Elementary School

Plain City Elementary School, a sizable K-5 school in Plain City, Ohio, run under Jonathan Alder Local, educates 704 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Plain City Elementary School sits 74% bigger than that benchmark.

Plain City Elementary School is one of 5 schools operated by Jonathan Alder Local, a district that educates 2,412 students overall.

On demographics, Plain City Elementary School reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Plain City Elementary School lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.7:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 21% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Madison County's rate of about 49%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Plain City Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 80.8%, the actual is 80.9%, a residual of +0.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Madison County put the typical household earns roughly $87,045 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Madison County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,189 students), Plain City Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Jonathan Alder High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Plain City Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 82.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Plain City Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 13% since 2018, when it stood at 621 (now 704). White enrollment moved from 94% to 88% across the same window.

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