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Arrowhead Elementary School
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 82% typical for Ohio schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Arrowhead Elementary School
Located at 2385 Hollenback Rd, in Lewis Center, Ohio, Arrowhead Elementary School is a high-enrollment primary school that teaches 648 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Olentangy Local. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Arrowhead Elementary School sits 60% bigger than that benchmark.
Across the 29 schools in Olentangy Local (24,133 students total), Arrowhead Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Arrowhead Elementary School records that White students make up the majority at 55%. Other groups include 22% Asian, 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 6% Black. By comparison, Delaware County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Arrowhead Elementary School records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Arrowhead Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 82.1%; this one delivers 80.0%.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Delaware County put median household income runs about $133,540, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Arrowhead Elementary School is one of 59 public schools in Delaware County (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students).
Peachblow Crossing Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Arrowhead Elementary School at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 88.5%.
Arrowhead Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Arrowhead Elementary School has rose 18%, going from 551 students in 2018 to 648 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 80% to 55% across the same window.
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