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Suffield Elementary School
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Suffield Elementary School
Suffield Elementary School operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in Mogadore, Ohio, run under Field Local. Current enrollment sits at 421 students spanning grades K through 5.
Suffield Elementary School is one of 4 schools operated by Field Local, a district that teaches 1,916 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Suffield Elementary School lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Portage County as a whole is about 87% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Suffield Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, Suffield Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.3%, the actual is 78.2%, a residual of +2.8 points.
In the broader community, Portage County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,766 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Portage County's 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 19,638 students), Suffield Elementary School is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Spring Hill Elementary, roughly 2.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Suffield Elementary School comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 64.3%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting.
Five-year trend. Suffield Elementary School's enrollment has ticked up 3% since 2018, when it stood at 409 (now 421). Class-load math has grew: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.
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