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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Prospect Elementary School?
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Enrollment
498
Elementary
DISTRICT 372 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GIRARD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 390440601007
Prospect Elementary School
700 E Prospect St, Girard, OH 44420 · (330) 545-3854 · Trumbull County
GRADES KG–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL498 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 80% of Ohio public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
495 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 109 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 130 | 26% |
| Grade 2 | 130 | 26% |
| Grade 3 | 129 | 26% |
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Prospect Elementary School→Girard Intermediate Middle School→Girard Junior High School→Girard Sr High School
Based on grade levels within Girard City School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
69.6%
OH avg 59.8% . +4.2pp since 2021
Math
61.6%
OH avg 56.1% . +7.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.6% | 61.6% |
| 2023-24 | 75.0% | 59.8% |
| 2022-23 | 69.0% | 57.6% |
| 2021-22 | 65.4% | 54.3% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of OH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
66.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.3%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 51% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Ohio's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Prospect Elementary School
Prospect Elementary School's state test result (66.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prospect Elementary School this school | 498 | 99.4% | 66.5% |
| Bellaire Elementary School Bellaire | 489 | 99.4% | 75.1% |
| Adena Elementary School Frankfort | 524 | 99.4% | 60.1% |
| Spencerville Elementary School Spencerville | 336 | 99.1% | 88.3% |
| Spring Hill Elementary Akron | 478 | 83.5% | 49.2% |
| Southeast Primary Elementary School Ravenna | 328 | 99.1% | N/A |
Matched among Ohio elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Prospect Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Trumbull County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.5% | #515 of 673 | #10 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.6% | #884 of 1,569 ▼ 1 | #18 of 27 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.6% | #604 of 1,569 ▼ 91 | #12 of 27 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.7pp | #532 of 1,514 | #12 of 27 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 498 | #486 of 1,808 | #7 of 32 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.8:1 | #1,054 of 1,582 | #22 of 26 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.8% | #819 of 1,590 | #9 of 26 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.4% | #2 of 767 | #1 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.1% | #454 of 561 | #6 of 7 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
498
+42 (+9%) vs 2020
+80% since 1990-91, when it was 277
Student : Teacher
18.8:1
was 17.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 498 | 26.5 | 18.8:1 | 99% (495) |
| 2023-24 | 511 | 26.5 | 19.3:1 | 99% (508) |
| 2022-23 | 480 | 27.5 | 17.4:1 | 99% (477) |
| 2020-21 | 456 | 26 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 483 | 24.5 | 19.7:1 | 99% (480) |
| 2015-16 | 472 | 26 | 18.1:1 | 99% (469) |
| 2010-11 | 530 | 23 | 23.0:1 | 99% (527) |
| 2000-01 | 545 | 29 | 18.8:1 | 76% (416) |
| 1990-91 | 277 | 14 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prospect Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (483 to 498); teachers up 8% (24.5 to 26.5).
About Prospect Elementary School
Prospect Elementary School is a public elementary school in Girard, Ohio. It enrolled 498 students in kindergarten through 3 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 23% higher than the average for elementary schools in Ohio, which is about 404.
Girard City School District (4 schools, 1,489 students) runs Prospect Elementary School.
White students make up a majority at Prospect Elementary School, at 79%. Other students are 15% Black, 2% Hispanic, and 2% multiracial. The school's diversity index is 35%, meaning two students picked at random have a 35% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teachers at Prospect Elementary School total 26.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 18.8:1. That is 0.9 students per teacher above the 17.9:1 average for elementary schools in Ohio. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 99%. The gap from the 55% average for public schools in Trumbull County is 44 points.
allk12 grades Prospect Elementary School an A-. The grade compares the school only with Ohio public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in Ohio with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate on state tests near 51.3%. Prospect Elementary School posts 66.5%, 15.2 points above that, which places it in the top 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
Census estimates describe Trumbull County this way: the median household income is $56,435, about 21% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. In all, Trumbull County has 72 public schools and roughly 25,240 students.
The closest public school, Girard Intermediate Middle School, is less than a tenth of a mile from Prospect Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. On average proficiency, Prospect Elementary School is 3rd of 6 nearby schools with test data.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is up 9% from 2020-21, when Prospect Elementary School had 456 students, to 2024-25, when it had 498. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 18.8:1, from 17.5:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Prospect Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Trumbull County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
200,929
Census ACS
Median income
$56,435
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
72
25,240 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Girard City School District
- Girard Sr High SchoolHigh · 421 students
- Girard Intermediate Middle SchoolMiddle · 349 students
- Girard Junior High SchoolMiddle · 221 students
Other schools in Girard
- Girard Sr High SchoolHigh · 421 students
- Girard Intermediate Middle SchoolMiddle · 349 students
- Girard Junior High SchoolMiddle · 221 students
Other Prospect Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 8 states are named Prospect Elementary. Prospect Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 11.
- Prospect ElementaryMaxton, NC · 775 students
- Prospect Elementary SchoolProspect, CT · 572 students
- PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMERIDIAN, ID · 456 students
- PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHEMPSTEAD, NY · 441 students
- PROSPECT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSALAMANCA, NY · 426 students
Nearby schools
- Girard Intermediate Middle School0.0 mi · 349
- Girard Sr High School0.9 mi · 421
- Girard Junior High School0.9 mi · 221
- E J Blott Elementary School1.6 mi · 351
- William S Guy Middle School1.6 mi · 254
- Liberty High School1.7 mi · 492
Frequently asked questions
About Prospect Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Prospect Elementary School?
Prospect Elementary School enrolls approximately 498 students in grades KG-03.
What grades does Prospect Elementary School serve?
Prospect Elementary School serves grades KG-03.
How many teachers does Prospect Elementary School have?
Prospect Elementary School employs 27 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.8:1.
How diverse is Prospect Elementary School?
Prospect Elementary School reports a student body of 79% White, 2% Hispanic, 15% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Prospect Elementary School?
Prospect Elementary School is overseen by Girard City School District in Trumbull County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.