Ragersville Elementary School

Located at 2405 Ragersville Rd SW, in Sugarcreek, Ohio, Ragersville Elementary School is a rural-scale K-5 school that hosts 145 students (grades K through 6), run under Garaway Local. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Ragersville Elementary School sits 64% leaner than that benchmark.

Ragersville Elementary School is one of 5 schools operated by Garaway Local, a district that serves 1,055 students overall.

On demographics, Ragersville Elementary School lists that nearly all students (81%) are White. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 94%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Tuscarawas County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ragersville Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 77.3%, the actual is 82.0%, a residual of +4.7 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Tuscarawas County) shows that median household earnings sit near $65,044, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Ragersville Elementary School is one of 44 public schools in Tuscarawas County (combined enrollment of about 15,660 students).

Nearest neighbor: Baltic Elementary School, around 3.7 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ragersville Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 79.1%.

Ragersville Elementary School operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ragersville Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 144 students in 2018 to 145 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 5% to 15% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.