Springfield Elementary School
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Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 69% 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 13 points, placing it in Ohio's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Springfield Elementary School
Springfield Elementary School is a K-5 school of mid-tier scale in New Middletown, Ohio, part of Springfield Local, works with 347 students in grades K through 4.
Springfield Local runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 5,814 students. Springfield Elementary School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Springfield Elementary School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (93%). Beyond that, the school records 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Springfield Elementary School sits in the top 10% of Ohio schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 69.4%; actual is 82.1%, +12.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.
In the area at large, community-level numbers for Mahoning County indicate median household income runs about $56,942, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. Across Mahoning County's 77 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,927 students), Springfield Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
Springfield Intermediate Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Springfield Elementary School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 66.4%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting.
Five-year trend. Springfield Elementary School's enrollment has fell 11% since 2018, when it stood at 388 (now 347).
On the community side, the feed for Springfield Elementary School typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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