Alum Creek Elementary School

Alum Creek Elementary School is a primary school of heavily attended scale in Lewis Center, Ohio, operated by Olentangy Local, educateing 664 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Alum Creek Elementary School sits 64% larger than that benchmark.

Olentangy Local comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 24,133 students; Alum Creek Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Alum Creek Elementary School records that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 27% Asian, 9% Black, 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the resource side, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Roughly 20% of students at Alum Creek Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Alum Creek Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.4%, the actual is 87.9%, a residual of +6.5 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Delaware County) logs that median household earnings sit near $133,540, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Alum Creek Elementary School is one of 59 public schools in Delaware County (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students).

Nearest neighbor: Glen Oak Elementary School, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Alum Creek Elementary School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 84.6%.

Alum Creek Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Alum Creek Elementary School has rose 15%, going from 578 students in 2018 to 664 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 77% to 53% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 today.

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