Blacklick Elementary School

Blacklick Elementary School is one of the heavily attended primary schools in Blacklick, Ohio, overseen by Gahanna-Jefferson City, with 692 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Blacklick Elementary School sits 71% larger than that benchmark.

Gahanna-Jefferson City comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 8,290 students; Blacklick Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Blacklick Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 55% of enrollment; the rest looks like 24% Black, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.0:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Franklin County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Blacklick Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 79.3%, the actual is 74.2%, a residual of -5.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Franklin County shows the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Blacklick Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lincoln Elementary School, around 1.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Blacklick Elementary School at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 73.5%.

Blacklick Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 33%: 519 students in 2018 compared to 692 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 55% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 19.2:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 in 2025.

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