English Language Arts
77.3%
State avg 59.8%
District avg 71.4%
County avg 62.1%
+12.3pp since 2021-22
District avg 71.4%
County avg 62.1%
+12.3pp since 2021-22
Test scores
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Ohio's State Tests, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient or Above.Mathematics
80.7%
State avg 56.1%
District avg 75.4%
County avg 59.1%
+8.5pp since 2021-22
District avg 75.4%
County avg 59.1%
+8.5pp since 2021-22
Science
N/A
State avg 60.7%
District avg 77.0%
County avg 63.3%
District avg 77.0%
County avg 63.3%
Social Studies
N/A
State avg 70.2%
District avg 78.8%
County avg 69.7%
District avg 78.8%
County avg 69.7%
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 12 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of OH schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
81.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.7%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% 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 18 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 →
4-year history
All grades, all students. Robert A. Taft Ohio avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 77.3% | 71.4% | 62.1% | 59.8% |
| SY 2023-24 | 84.1% | 75.2% | 62.5% | 60.6% |
| SY 2022-23 | 70.8% | 72.6% | 60.8% | 59.3% |
| SY 2021-22 | 65.0% | 73.8% | 59.7% | 58.2% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 80.7% | 75.4% | 59.1% | 56.1% |
| SY 2023-24 | 82.6% | 75.7% | 57.5% | 54.1% |
| SY 2022-23 | 78.8% | 77.1% | 56.7% | 53.3% |
| SY 2021-22 | 72.2% | 74.6% | 54.6% | 50.8% |
How to read these scores
What is Ohio's State Tests?
Ohio's State Tests (OST) are administered each spring to public-school students in grades 3 through 8 in English Language Arts and Math, plus Science at grades 5 and 8. High school students take End-of-Course exams in Algebra I, Geometry, English II, Biology, US History, and US Government for graduation.
What does "% Proficient or Above" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at "Proficient", "Accomplished", or "Advanced" on Ohio's 5-level performance scale (Limited, Basic, Proficient, Accomplished, Advanced). Proficient and above is Ohio's grade-level benchmark; the cumulative rate is what feeds the school's Achievement Star Rating. A higher number is better.
What does 77.3% mean for English Language Arts at Robert A. Taft Elementary School?
It means about 77.3 percent of students tested at Robert A. Taft Elementary School performed at grade level or above on the Ohio's State Tests English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Ohio that year was 59.8%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Ohio, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, Ohio School Report Cards Achievement Component. Building-level results for Ohio's State Tests (OST) in ELA + Math (grades 3-8), Science (grades 5, 8), high-school End-of-Course exams (Algebra I, Biology, English II, US History, US Government). Headline metric is the cumulative Proficient-or-Above rate (top 3 of 5 OST performance levels).
How often is it updated?
Ohio's State Tests is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.