Cedarwood Alternative 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 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 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 3 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 10 points.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Cedarwood Alternative Elementary School
Located at 775 Bartfield Dr, in Columbus, Ohio, Cedarwood Alternative Elementary School is a cozy elementary school that educates 326 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Columbus City Schools District.
Columbus City Schools District comprises 115 schools with combined enrollment of 46,249 students; Cedarwood Alternative Elementary School is among them.
Looking at the student body, Cedarwood Alternative Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is White (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 35% Black, 16% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Cedarwood Alternative Elementary School records 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.2:1. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Franklin County indicate median household earnings sit near $75,176, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Cedarwood Alternative Elementary School is one.
Nearest neighbor: A+ Children's Academy, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Cedarwood Alternative Elementary School operates from a city-core location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cedarwood Alternative Elementary School has ticked down 22%, going from 417 students in 2018 to 326 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 50% to 38% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.
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