Wynford Elementary School

Wynford Elementary School is an elementary school of mid-tier scale in Bucyrus, Ohio, run under Wynford Local, serveing 569 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Wynford Elementary School sits 41% bigger than that benchmark.

Wynford Local comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,079 students; Wynford Elementary School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Wynford Elementary School shows that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Compared to Crawford County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wynford Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.9%; this one delivers 65.5%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Crawford County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,044 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Crawford County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,870 students), Wynford Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Wynford Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Wynford Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Wynford Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.6%.

Wynford Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 12%: 650 students in 2018 compared to 569 in 2025.

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