Buckeye Woods Elementary School

Buckeye Woods Elementary School is a well-populated elementary campus in Grove City, Ohio, one of the schools within South-Western City. The school enrolls 742 students in grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 84% above the state mean of about 404.

Across the 33 schools in South-Western City (21,873 students total), Buckeye Woods Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Buckeye Woods Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest looks like 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Buckeye Woods Elementary School lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.4:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 21% of students at Buckeye Woods Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Franklin County (around 41%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Buckeye Woods Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 81.0%, the actual is 86.7%, a residual of +5.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,176, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Buckeye Woods Elementary School is one.

Jackson Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Buckeye Woods Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Buckeye Woods Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 70.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Buckeye Woods Elementary School's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 747 (now 742). The White share of enrollment shrank from 89% to 82% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.