Cheshire Elementary

Cheshire Elementary is one of the mid-sized primary schools in Delaware, Ohio, part of Olentangy Local, with 508 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Cheshire Elementary sits 26% larger than that benchmark.

Olentangy Local comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 24,133 students; Cheshire Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cheshire Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Around 12% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Delaware County's rate of about 20%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cheshire Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 84.4%, the actual is 87.5%, a residual of +3.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Delaware County indicate the typical household earns roughly $133,540 per year, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Delaware County's 59 public schools (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students), Cheshire Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Olentangy Berlin Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cheshire Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 85.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Cheshire Elementary's enrollment has contracted 27% since 2018, when it stood at 697 (now 508). Over the same period, the White share fell from 81% to 51%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 16.6:1 today.

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