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Enrollment
448
Elementary
DISTRICT 480 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HILLIARD CITY·NCES 390470102746
Brown Elementary School
2494 Walker Rd, Hilliard, OH 43026 · (614) 921-5400 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL448 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 67% 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.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-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
17.0:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
125 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
76.9%
OH avg 59.8% . +5.5pp since 2021
Math
77.6%
OH avg 56.1% . +17.3pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 6 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 17 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.9% | 77.6% |
| 2023-24 | 80.4% | 74.1% |
| 2022-23 | 73.9% | 70.1% |
| 2021-22 | 71.4% | 60.2% |
% 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
76.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
78.3%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 78% 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 Brown Elementary School
Brown Elementary School's state test result (76.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brown Elementary School this school | 448 | 27.9% | 76.2% |
| Edgewood Elementary School Marysville | 487 | 29.4% | 80.5% |
| Sylvan Elementary School Sylvania | 415 | 28.0% | 79.1% |
| North Ridgeville Early Childhood Learning Community North Ridgeville | 500 | 25.6% | N/A |
| Avery Elementary School Hilliard | 432 | 23.8% | 73.9% |
| Mill Valley Elementary School Marysville | 403 | 29.3% | 74.1% |
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 Brown Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.2% | #328 of 673 | #30 of 81 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.6% | #448 of 1,569 ▲ 53 | #34 of 199 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.9% | #374 of 1,569 ▼ 34 | #31 of 199 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +11.4pp | #207 of 1,514 | #40 of 194 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 448 | #663 of 1,808 | #86 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #657 of 1,582 | #53 of 192 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.3% | #715 of 1,590 | #157 of 193 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.9% | #552 of 767 | #57 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.9% | #258 of 992 | #46 of 135 |
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
448
-24 (-5%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 469
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 448 | 26.3 | 17.0:1 | 28% (125) |
| 2023-24 | 456 | 27.3 | 16.7:1 | 26% (118) |
| 2022-23 | 447 | 29 | 15.4:1 | 21% (94) |
| 2020-21 | 472 | 30 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 559 | 25.8 | 21.6:1 | 29% (161) |
| 2015-16 | 568 | 25 | 22.7:1 | 36% (205) |
| 2010-11 | 552 | 27 | 20.4:1 | 25% (140) |
| 2000-01 | 658 | 33 | 19.9:1 | 3% (23) |
| 1990-91 | 469 | 29 | 16.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brown Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (559 to 448); teachers up 2% (25.8 to 26.3).
About Brown Elementary School
A mid-sized elementary school in Hilliard, Ohio, Brown Elementary School is part of Hilliard City. The school has 448 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 5.
Hilliard City is the district for Brown Elementary School. It has 24 schools and 16,298 students.
More than half of enrollment at Brown Elementary School is White: 76%. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Black, and 3% Asian. The county population is about 59% White. The diversity index for Brown Elementary School is 40%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Brown Elementary School lists 26.3 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 17.0 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Ohio, the average ratio is 17.9:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 28% of the student body. Among public schools in Franklin County, the average eligibility rate is 41%.
Brown Elementary School earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 67% of Ohio public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Brown Elementary School would score about 78.3%. It scores 76.2%, 2.0 points below that figure.
In Franklin County, home to about 1,333,048 people, the median household earns about $75,176 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 11%. Brown Elementary School shares Franklin County with 401 other public schools.
Hilliard Bradley High School is about 0.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 68.3%; Brown Elementary School's is 76.2%, ranking 1st of 7.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Fringe.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 472 (2020-21) to 448 (2024-25). There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (17.0:1) than in 2020-21 (15.7:1).
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Franklin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,333,048
Census ACS
Median income
$75,176
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
402
195,359 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hilliard City
- Hilliard Davidson High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Hilliard Bradley High SchoolHigh · 1,712 students
- Hilliard Darby High SchoolHigh · 1,674 students
- Hilliard Weaver Middle SchoolMiddle · 917 students
- Hilliard Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 797 students
- Hilliard Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 791 students
Other schools in Hilliard
- Hilliard Davidson High SchoolHigh · 1,847 students
- Hilliard Bradley High SchoolHigh · 1,712 students
- Hilliard Darby High SchoolHigh · 1,674 students
- Hilliard Weaver Middle SchoolMiddle · 917 students
- Hilliard Memorial Middle SchoolMiddle · 797 students
- Hilliard Heritage Middle SchoolMiddle · 791 students
Other Brown Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 7 states are named Brown Elementary. Brown Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 11.
- Brown Elementary SchoolIRVING, TX · 879 students
- Brown Elementary SchoolJonesboro, GA · 671 students
- Brown Elementary SchoolBrownsburg, IN · 555 students
- Brown ElementaryRENO, NV · 514 students
- Brown Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 497 students
Nearby schools
- Hilliard Bradley High School0.3 mi · 1,712
- Hilliard Memorial Middle School0.5 mi · 797
- Hilliard City School District Preschool1.2 mi · 415
- Alton Darby Elementary School1.2 mi · 533
- Darby Creek Elementary School1.3 mi · 526
- Hilliard Horizon Elementary School2.2 mi · 596
Frequently asked questions
About Brown Elementary SchoolHow large is Brown Elementary School?
Brown Elementary School enrolls approximately 448 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Brown Elementary School serve?
Brown Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Brown Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Brown Elementary School is approximately 17.0:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Brown Elementary School?
At Brown Elementary School, the student body is approximately 76% White, 10% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Brown Elementary School in?
Brown Elementary School is part of Hilliard City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.