Shiloh Elementary School

As a compact K-5 school in Plymouth, Ohio, Shiloh Elementary School hosts 288 students from grades pre-K through 4, run under Plymouth-Shiloh Local. That puts it 29% below the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Plymouth-Shiloh Local runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 611 students. Shiloh Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Shiloh Elementary School logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Richland County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Shiloh Elementary School has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Richland County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Shiloh Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.2%; this one delivers 72.5%.

In the surrounding community, Richland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,509 per year, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Richland County's 49 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,772 students), Shiloh Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Shiloh Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Shiloh Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 67.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 18%: 350 students in 2018 compared to 288 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

On this page, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.