Dundee Elementary School, Dundee OH

Original Research by School Decision on Dundee Elementary School

Dundee Elementary School sits on School Street in a very small rural hamlet that straddles the border between Wayne Township and Ohio's Amish Country. The school serves kindergarten through sixth grade in a part of Tuscarawas County where the population is stable and aging, the built environment is scattered houses and farm country rather than subdivisions, and most families own their homes. The surrounding economy is built on small Amish-owned businesses—furniture makers, bent-and-dent grocers, greenhouses, and craft shops—rather than large employers, so many families commute to work in nearby towns like Sugarcreek or Berlin.

The school itself is small, with enrollment distributed across seven grades. About three in ten students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly white, with a handful of Hispanic students and very few other racial or ethnic groups represented. Special education enrollment data and English learner counts were not available.

On state testing in math and English language arts for grades 3 through 6, Dundee's proficiency rate stands in the high range. Science proficiency is notably strong. These results place the school in the top quartile among Tuscarawas County districts for overall proficiency across tested subjects. On the broader index of proficiency, Dundee is performing above the county median.

The school is part of Garaway Local School District, which operates a separate junior/senior high school in Sugarcreek about a short distance away, and two other elementary schools in Baltic and Ragersville. Dundee Elementary thus serves as the K-6 campus for its own attendance area within the larger district. Data on staffing, class size, specific program offerings, discipline practices, and attendance were not available.

The community has no major recent development or growth; housing values in the area are modest and stable. A parent might consider visiting the school to discuss class composition, teaching approach, extracurricular offerings, and how the school coordinates with the middle school transition, since that information was not included in available data.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grades 3-885%

School 85% · District 77% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 24 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

English language arts

Grades 3-885%

School 85% · District 75% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Science

Grades 3-896%

School 96% · District 78% · ▲ 18 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 487%

School 87% · district not reported

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

Grade 657%

School 57% · district not reported

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

This schoolGaraway Local, same grade

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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 4Lower-income86%Higher-income88%3 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income86%Higher-income94%8 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income75%Higher-income84%9 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 4Lower-income100%Higher-income100%0 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income86%Higher-income88%3 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income50%Higher-income84%34 pp gap