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Enrollment
663
Elementary
DISTRICT 338 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BIG WALNUT LOCAL·NCES 390467405691
Big Walnut Intermediate School
777 Cheshire Rd, Sunbury, OH 43074 · (740) 965-7800 · Delaware County
GRADES 04–05ELEMENTARY31-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL663 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% of Ohio public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Ohio public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.7:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.5:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
142 students
DISTRICT 20% · STATE 43%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 | 319 | 48% |
| Grade 5 | 344 | 52% |
Student demographics
23%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 25% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Big Walnut Local. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
81.5%
OH avg 59.8% . +2.1pp since 2021
Math
76.2%
OH avg 56.1% . +3.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.5% | 76.2% |
| 2023-24 | 77.8% | 68.5% |
| 2022-23 | 78.8% | 68.6% |
| 2021-22 | 79.4% | 72.8% |
% Proficient or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Ohio's State Tests. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
75.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
80.7%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 81% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Big Walnut Intermediate School
Big Walnut Intermediate School's state test result (75.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Walnut Intermediate School this school | 663 | 21.4% | 75.6% |
| Plain City Elementary School Plain City | 704 | 21.2% | 80.9% |
| Liberty-Benton Elementary School Findlay | 620 | 22.4% | 83.4% |
| Mercer Elementary School Cincinnati | 611 | 20.1% | 84.4% |
| Buckeye Woods Elementary School Grove City | 742 | 20.6% | 86.7% |
| Sauder Elementary School Massillon | 722 | 18.3% | 87.6% |
Matched among Ohio elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Big Walnut Intermediate School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.6% | #345 of 673 | #26 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.2% | #483 of 1,569 ▲ 186 | #25 of 33 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.5% | #230 of 1,569 ▲ 179 | #20 of 33 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.8pp | #775 of 1,514 | #7 of 33 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 663 | #183 of 1,808 | #7 of 35 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.7:1 | #1,365 of 1,582 | #25 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.4% | #1,073 of 1,590 | #31 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.4% | #621 of 767 | #14 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.9% | #208 of 561 | #7 of 15 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
663
+68 (+11%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
20.7:1
was 22.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 663 | 32 | 20.7:1 | 21% (142) |
| 2023-24 | 643 | 33 | 19.5:1 | 21% (134) |
| 2022-23 | 619 | 29.3 | 21.1:1 | 14% (86) |
| 2020-21 | 595 | 27 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 567 | 32 | 17.7:1 | 14% (77) |
| 2015-16 | 534 | 26 | 20.5:1 | 17% (92) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Big Walnut Intermediate School.
Since 2017-18: students up 17% (567 to 663); teachers unchanged (32 to 32).
About Big Walnut Intermediate School
Big Walnut Intermediate School is an elementary school with a street address in Sunbury, Ohio. Federal data show 663 students enrolled in grades 4 through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Ohio average about 404 students, which makes this school 64% bigger than average.
Big Walnut Local, which runs Big Walnut Intermediate School, has 8 schools and 4,298 students.
Roughly 87% of students at Big Walnut Intermediate School are White. The remaining students are 6% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Big Walnut Intermediate School scores 23%.
For every teacher at Big Walnut Intermediate School, there are about 20.7 students; the school has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in Ohio average 17.9:1. There are 142 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 21% of enrollment. The average for public schools in Delaware County is similar, at 20%.
On the allk12 Grade, Big Walnut Intermediate School lands at B-, ahead of 53% of Ohio public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Big Walnut Intermediate School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Ohio schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 75.6%; the prediction is 80.7%.
American Community Survey estimates for Delaware County show that the median household earns about $133,540 a year, roughly 59% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Delaware County counts 59 public schools with about 44,100 students.
Among nearby public schools, General Rosecrans Elementary is closest at about 0.6 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. On state test proficiency, Big Walnut Intermediate School ranks 6th in a group of 8 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Town: Fringe.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 663, compared with 595 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 22.0:1 to 20.7:1.
This page is set up for the Big Walnut Intermediate School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
226,834
Census ACS
Median income
$133,540
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
59%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
59
44,100 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Big Walnut Local
- Big Walnut High SchoolHigh · 1,299 students
- Big Walnut Middle SchoolMiddle · 973 students
- Prairie Run Elementary SchoolElementary · 352 students
- General Rosecrans ElementaryElementary · 296 students
- Big Walnut Elementary SchoolElementary · 295 students
- Hylen Souders Elementary SchoolElementary · 289 students
Other schools in Sunbury
- Big Walnut High SchoolHigh · 1,299 students
- Big Walnut Middle SchoolMiddle · 973 students
- Prairie Run Elementary SchoolElementary · 352 students
- General Rosecrans ElementaryElementary · 296 students
- Big Walnut Elementary SchoolElementary · 295 students
- Big Walnut Early Learning Center at Harrison StreetElementary · 131 students
Nearby schools
- General Rosecrans Elementary0.6 mi · 296
- Big Walnut Early Learning Center at Harrison Street1.0 mi · 131
- Prairie Run Elementary School1.0 mi · 352
- Big Walnut High School1.1 mi · 1,299
- Big Walnut Elementary School1.3 mi · 295
- Big Walnut Middle School1.5 mi · 973
Frequently asked questions
About Big Walnut Intermediate SchoolHow many students attend Big Walnut Intermediate School?
Big Walnut Intermediate School enrolls approximately 663 students in grades 04-05.
What grades does Big Walnut Intermediate School serve?
Big Walnut Intermediate School serves grades 04-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Big Walnut Intermediate School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Big Walnut Intermediate School is approximately 20.7:1 (32 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Big Walnut Intermediate School?
Big Walnut Intermediate School reports a student body of 87% White, 6% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Big Walnut Intermediate School?
Big Walnut Intermediate School is overseen by Big Walnut Local in Delaware County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.