Summary:
Bluffton Elementary School is the only elementary school in Bluffton Exempted Village, serving grades K–5 to 534 students at 102 S Jackson St in Bluffton, Ohio. Because it is the sole elementary school in the district, there are no within-district alternatives to compare it against — the more useful comparison is between this school and the state of Ohio. The school holds a 5-star rating in every year of available data, and the district as a whole is also rated 5 stars and ranked 49 of 773 Ohio districts.
Test results are the headline. Every reported Ohio State Tests proficiency result in both 2025–2026 and 2024–2025 was above the state average. In 2025–2026, 5th grade Science was 86.3% versus 62.7% statewide (a 23.6-point gap, the smallest), while 3rd grade Mathematics was 96.3% versus 62.1% (a 34.2-point gap, the largest). Averaged across the seven reported tests, the school reached about 92.4% proficient compared with roughly 63.8% statewide. Mathematics and English Language Arts are balanced at a high level, averaging about 93.4% and 93.5% respectively, while Science, tested only in grade 5, came in at 86.3%. Results improved overall from 2024–2025, when the average was about 87.0%, with 5th grade Mathematics posting the biggest jump, from 70.5% to 90.0%.
The school's state rank rose to 43 out of 1,560 schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 97th percentile, up from 107 of 1,558 the previous year and 95 of 1,577 in 2023–2024. Chronic absenteeism is 4.2%, below the district's 6.7%. A few caveats: the student-teacher ratio is 18.4, the per-student spending figure of $7,736 dates back to 2018–2019 and should not be read as current, and the free/reduced-lunch figure is blank, so the school's socioeconomic context cannot be assessed from this data.
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