Spencerville Elementary School

Spencerville Elementary School is one of the intimate primary schools in Spencerville, Ohio, run under Spencerville Local, with 336 students on its rolls from grades K through 4.

Spencerville Local runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 986 students. Spencerville Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Spencerville Elementary School logs that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 3% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Spencerville Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Allen County's rate of about 50%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Spencerville Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Ohio schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 51.4%; actual is 88.3%, +37.0 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Allen County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,038 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Allen County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,579 students), Spencerville Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Spencerville High School, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Spencerville Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 74.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Spencerville Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 367 (now 336). Class-load math has tightened: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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