Summary
Minster Elementary School is a K–6 public school in Minster, OH, serving 504 students as part of Minster Local, and it sits in an unusual cluster of high-performing schools: within about 12 miles are New Bremen Elementary School, Fort Loramie Elementary School, Russia Elementary School, Marion Local Elementary School, and New Knoxville Elementary School.
Academically, Minster is elite and stable. In 2025-2026 it ranked 20th of 1,560 Ohio elementaries—99th percentile, 5 stars—and it has earned 5 stars for 10 straight reporting years while never ranking outside the top 5%. Every reported grade-level test was above 82% proficient, and six of nine were at or above 93%; Minster clears the state by 23–40 points in every subject and grade. Its math advantage is largest in grades 5 and 6, where it runs about 39 points above the state. Nearby competition is intense: Fort Loramie is ranked 4th statewide and beats Minster in some 2025-2026 math, ELA, and science results, while Minster's edge is consistency plus deep grade 5–6 math results. New Bremen, 2.5 miles away, is also in the top 20 statewide.
Attendance and subgroups round out the picture. Chronic absenteeism is 2.7%, roughly half the 5.6% district rate, though Marion Local posts 0.8% and New Bremen, Fort Loramie, and Russia each post 1.7%. Female and male students rank in the top 2% statewide; the low-income subgroup is the one place Minster looks merely very good rather than elite—87th percentile in 2024-2025 and 83rd in 2023-2024, with 4 stars, but improving. The main academic watch item is a 6th-grade ELA plateau: 81.7%, 79.3%, 83.6%, and 82.2%, consistently the school's lowest result, while 6th-grade math is 95.9%; Fort Loramie (88.9%) and New Bremen (84.5%) outperform Minster there. A 3-star gifted result is from 2017-2018 only and is stale. Minster's 2018-2019 spending was $10,976 per student, the richest in this comparison group, while its student-teacher ratio of 16.6 is mid-pack.
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