Rootstown Elementary School

As a moderately sized elementary-level community in Rootstown, Ohio, Rootstown Elementary School enrolls 406 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Rootstown Local.

Within Rootstown Local, which oversees 3 schools and 917 students, Rootstown Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rootstown Elementary School records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% Hispanic, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rootstown Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 71.8%; this one delivers 71.0%.

Across the wider county, Portage County reports that median household income runs about $75,766, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Portage County runs 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,638 students), of which Rootstown Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Rootstown/Mabel Schnee Bldg Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rootstown Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Rootstown Elementary School comes 1st of 4 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 64.7%.

Rootstown Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 25%: 540 students in 2018 compared to 406 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.