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Reagan Elementary School
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 92 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 8 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 8 points.
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 68% 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 17 points, placing it in Ohio's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Reagan Elementary School
Reagan Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Ashland, Ohio, one of the schools within Ashland City. The school works with 532 students in grades pre-K through 3. That puts it 32% bigger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.
Within Ashland City, which oversees 5 schools and 3,007 students, Reagan Elementary School is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Reagan Elementary School lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. Compared to Ashland County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Reagan Elementary School shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.5:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at Reagan Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
With demographic context factored in, Reagan Elementary School is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 68.3%; this one delivers 85.0%, a residual of +16.7 points.
Around the school, census data for Ashland County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,860 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Ashland County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,940 students), Reagan Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Ashland County Community Academy, around 1.0 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Reagan Elementary School at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 72.5%.
Reagan Elementary School operates from a town-based location.
Over the past 7-year window. Reagan Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 595 (now 532). Class-load math has grew: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 24.5:1 in 2025.
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