Keystone Elementary School, Lagrange OH

Original Research by School Decision on Keystone Elementary School

Keystone Elementary School sits on a new shared campus south of the village center in LaGrange, a small rural village in southern Lorain County, Ohio. The school serves kindergarten through fifth grade and draws an enrollment of roughly seven hundred students, with a student body that is predominantly white and includes a modest share of Hispanic students and multiracial students. About a third of the enrollment qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch.

The school's most recent state testing results show proficiency rates in the low to mid range. In reading and language arts, about two-thirds of third through fifth graders tested at proficiency or above. In mathematics, the rate was slightly lower, at around three in five students. Science performed better, with roughly seven in ten students proficient. These outcomes place the school above the midpoint among Lorain County districts when looking at overall proficiency across subjects. State testing data was not available for kindergarten through second grade, as Ohio does not test students in those grades.

The rural character of LaGrange shapes the school's setting. The village functions as a residential community within commuting distance of Cleveland and Elyria, with a strong agricultural base and surrounding farmlands. Homes range from century-old houses to new subdivisions built around the Grey Hawk Golf Club and other recent developments. Manufacturing and healthcare are the largest employer categories, alongside the school district itself. Residents are car-dependent; the CSX rail line that runs through town serves freight rather than passenger transit, and no fixed-route public transportation is documented locally.

The Keystone Local Schools occupy a contiguous campus that opened in phases. Civic life centers on the village roundabout downtown, where Sherman's Circle anchors the community, and on a ninety-acre LaGrange Community Park with baseball fields, soccer pitches, walking trails, and an ice-skating area. The village library operates from a historic Vets Hall building in Veterans Park.

Information on specific academic programs, staffing, or family support services at Keystone Elementary was not available in the data reviewed. The district's website may provide detail on curriculum approach, special education and English learner supports, before- or after-school offerings, or any recent changes to programming.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grades 3-861%

School 61% · District 59% · ▲ 2 pts above district

even with state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

English language arts

Grades 3-865%

School 65% · District 67% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

Science

Grades 3-871%

School 71% · District 70% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 497%

School 97% · district not reported

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county 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.