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Starr 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 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Starr Elementary School
Starr Elementary School is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in Oregon, Ohio, one of the schools within Oregon City, with 472 students on its rolls from grades K through 4.
Oregon City runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,318 students. Starr Elementary School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Starr Elementary School records that 69% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 5% Black, 3% multiracial. Compared to Lucas County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Starr Elementary School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Lucas County's rate of about 44%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Starr Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.1%, the actual is 64.1%, a residual of -5.0 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Lucas County put median household income runs about $62,224, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lucas County runs 143 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,839 students), of which Starr Elementary School is one.
Fassett Junior High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 467 students in 2018 compared to 472 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 76% to 69% over that span.
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