Van Wert Elementary School

Van Wert Elementary School is a K-5 school of well-populated scale in Van Wert, Ohio, operated by Van Wert City, caters to 692 students in grades 1 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 71% larger than the state mean of about 404.

Van Wert City runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,943 students. Van Wert Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Van Wert Elementary School logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 2% multiracial, 2% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Van Wert Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Van Wert County (around 67%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Van Wert Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 67.5%; this one delivers 65.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Van Wert County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $67,917 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Van Wert County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,713 students), of which Van Wert Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Van Wert High School, around 0.3 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Van Wert Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 3% since 2018, when it stood at 717 (now 692).

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