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Woodland Elementary School
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Woodland Elementary School
Set in Liberty Township, Ohio, Woodland Elementary School is an average-sized elementary school, one of the schools within Lakota Local. It enrolls 605 students across grades 3 through 6. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 50% bigger than typical.
Lakota Local comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 18,806 students; Woodland Elementary School is among them.
Demographically, Woodland Elementary School lists that 56% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 17% Hispanic, 11% Black, 10% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Butler County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, On paper, Woodland Elementary School has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.8:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 44% of students at Woodland Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Woodland Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.2%, the actual is 77.2%, a residual of +5.0 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Butler County shows the typical household earns roughly $81,590 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Butler County runs 90 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,107 students), of which Woodland Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Liberty Junior School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Woodland Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Woodland Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 80.9%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Woodland Elementary School has climbed 40%, going from 432 students in 2018 to 605 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 22% to 11% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 in 2025.
On allk12, the feed for Woodland Elementary School typically covers classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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