W. S. Stinson Elementary School

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Canal Fulton, Ohio, W. S. Stinson Elementary School hosts 384 students from grades 3 through 5, part of Northwest Local.

W. S. Stinson Elementary School is one of 19 schools operated by Northwest Local, a district that instructs 11,022 students overall.

In terms of who attends, W. S. Stinson Elementary School lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, W. S. Stinson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.8%, the actual is 83.0%, a residual of +9.2 points.

In the area at large, Stark County reports that the typical household earns roughly $67,934 per year, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Stark County runs 101 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,798 students), of which W. S. Stinson Elementary School is one.

The closest other public school is Northwest Primary School, roughly 0.1 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts W. S. Stinson Elementary School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 82.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Five-year trend. W. S. Stinson Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 411 (now 384). White enrollment moved from 99% to 91% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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