The top reported proficiency rate is 75% in Math. The lowest is 69% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Celina Intermediate Elementary School
Celina Intermediate Elementary School serves students in grades five and six in a small county-seat city in west-central Ohio. The school sits at Portland Street in Celina, a manufacturing and lake-based community on Grand Lake St. Marys, and is part of the Celina City Schools district, which is undergoing a major consolidation and rebuilding project that will fundamentally reshape how students move through the system.
The school's academic profile shows solid performance in the most recent state testing data. In grade five, more than three-quarters of students met or exceeded the state's proficiency standard in math and nearly three-quarters did so in both English language arts and science. Grade six proficiency was somewhat lower, particularly in English language arts where about two-thirds of students achieved proficiency. Math results in grade six dropped a few percentage points from grade five but still held above the threshold where most students demonstrated competency. The school tested all students, and the participation rate was complete across both grades and subjects. When compared against other districts in Mercer County, the school's overall proficiency across all tested grades and subjects falls in the lower tier among county peers, though the comparison set reflects a relatively strong performance region overall.
The school serves a student body that is predominantly white, with about half of all students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. Enrollment sits at roughly equal numbers in each grade. The district does not report data on special education enrollment or English learner identification for this school, so it is unclear from the available data whether those populations are present or what their size might be.
The broader context matters here. Celina Intermediate Elementary is being caught up in a major district facilities project that will reshape school organization. Voters approved a bond and maintenance levy in 2021 to consolidate six aging buildings into two modern campuses. The district is currently building a new pre-K through grade six elementary school as an addition to the existing Intermediate School building, and a separate new seventh through twelfth grade building on the existing primary and high school site. Once construction finishes, expected in late 2026 or early 2027, elementary students will no longer move to a new building every few years. Instead of transitioning between a primary building, this intermediate building, and then a middle school, they will stay in one facility from pre-K through sixth grade. This is a generational change for the district, driven by property-tax increases that will extend for decades, but it promises to replace aging facilities with modern ones and eliminate the disruption of building transitions during early adolescence.
The community itself is steady and mixed in character. Celina is the Mercer County seat with a historic downtown along Main Street that supports local shops and civic events like the county fair, lake festivals, and summer concert series. Manufacturing employs a substantial local workforce in plants making auto parts, equipment, and insurance products, and the area has seen post-recession job growth that outpaced the U.S. non-metro average. The lakefront and state park anchor outdoor recreation and tourism. Housing values are moderate relative to national benchmarks, and the local economy has grown slowly but steadily over recent decades.
For a family considering this school, the immediate academic picture is one of decent proficiency with room for growth in the higher grade, and the larger story is one of transition. The school exists as an intermediate facility that will cease to serve its current role once the new elementary building opens. Families moving into the district now or enrolling students here should understand they are part of a shifting landscape, with new modern facilities coming but also with the tax base changes that fund them.
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