Prass Elementary School

Prass Elementary School is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in Kettering, Ohio, overseen by Kettering City School District, instructing 420 students in grades K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Prass Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 78%. The remainder is composed of 8% multiracial, 8% Black, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Prass Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Prass 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 74.2%; Prass Elementary School posts 85.7%, +11.5 points above that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) logs that median household income runs about $66,139, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Prass Elementary School is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students).

J F Kennedy Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Prass Elementary School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Prass Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 75.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Prass Elementary School's enrollment has climbed 5% since 2018, when it stood at 401 (now 420). White enrollment moved from 84% to 78% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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