Monroeville Elementary School, Monroeville OH

Original Research by School Decision on Monroeville Elementary School

Monroeville Elementary School serves prekindergarten through sixth grade in a small rural village in northwest Huron County, Ohio. The school sits integrated into the village core at West Street, where the local community assembles for events like the annual Halloween parade that walks between the school and the nearby fire station, reflecting a tight connection between the school building and civic life.

The school's enrollment is small, with roughly a third of a typical elementary building for its grade span. The student body is predominantly white, with a small number of students from other backgrounds. Free and reduced price lunch data was not available in the records reviewed, and enrollment in special education and English learner programs is not reported publicly.

On Ohio's state tests in math and English language arts, Monroeville Elementary's performance runs around the midpoint across Huron County districts. In math, the most recent results show proficiency above the county median. Reading proficiency is slightly weaker, running just below where many comparable districts stand. Science proficiency, measured for only a small subset of elementary grades, was below the county's typical range. The school tests at full participation and no recent data trend is available to show whether results are holding, improving, or shifting.

The village itself is a stable, car-dependent rural community of under a thousand residents, with a compact downtown and surrounding farmland. The local economy centers on small construction and service businesses, along with Underground Utilities Inc., a water and sewer construction company based in Monroeville. Many residents commute to larger employers in surrounding counties. Housing values in the area run well below the state average, with strong affordability relative to household income. The village has experienced slight population decline over the past decade and is investing in infrastructure improvements, including fiber-optic internet and water and sewer upgrades, rather than expansion.

The Monroeville Local School District faced a significant funding challenge when voters narrowly rejected a renewal property tax levy in November 2021. A renewal loss, unlike a new levy vote, means the loss of an existing ongoing revenue stream the district had been relying on. That decision bears directly on the long-term financial stability of the district and is something a parent or resident considering this school would want to understand more fully by talking with the school or district directly about how that vote has affected operations and outlook.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grades 3-869%

School 69% · District 61% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

English language arts

Grades 3-862%

School 62% · District 58% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median · even with county median

Science

Grades 3-841%

School 41% · District 42% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 476%

School 76% · district not reported

▼ 6 pts below state median

Grade 674%

School 74% · district not reported

▲ 10 pts above state median

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Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.