Enrollment
371
Elementary
DISTRICT 426 · STATE 404
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WORTHINGTON CITY·NCES 390451302035
Colonial Hills Elementary School
5800 Greenwich St, Worthington, OH 43085 · (614) 450-5400 · Franklin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL371 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 47% of Ohio public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-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
15.9:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 17.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
130 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 43%
Community
0
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 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 77 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
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Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveEnglish Language Arts
79.2%
OH avg 59.8% . +5.3pp since 2021
Math
66.8%
OH avg 56.1% . -2.6pp since 2021
What this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 5 points since 2021, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Ohio's State Tests results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.2% | 66.8% |
| 2023-24 | 75.2% | 67.5% |
| 2022-23 | 72.7% | 75.1% |
| 2021-22 | 73.9% | 69.4% |
% 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
71.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
75.6%
based on OH schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% 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 Colonial Hills Elementary School
Colonial Hills Elementary School's state test result (71.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colonial Hills Elementary School this school | 371 | 35.0% | 71.3% |
| Mark Twain Elementary School Westerville | 398 | 29.9% | 79.6% |
| Whittier Elementary School Westerville | 367 | 42.0% | 81.0% |
| Robert Frost Elementary School Westerville | 420 | 26.7% | 79.9% |
| W O Cline Elementary School Centerville | 434 | 34.8% | 76.9% |
| McVay Elementary School Westerville | 591 | 34.2% | 77.0% |
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 Colonial Hills Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Ohio | In Franklin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #436 of 673 | #43 of 81 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #744 of 1,569 ▼ 42 | #55 of 199 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.2% | #286 of 1,569 ▲ 215 | #24 of 199 ▲ 20 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.4pp | #915 of 1,514 | #129 of 194 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 371 | #967 of 1,808 | #120 of 225 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #432 of 1,582 | #27 of 192 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.7% | #495 of 1,590 | #127 of 193 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 35.0% | #458 of 767 | #48 of 85 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.9% | #502 of 992 | #88 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
371
-65 (-15%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 401
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 371 | 23.3 | 15.9:1 | 35% (130) |
| 2023-24 | 375 | 22.5 | 16.7:1 | 31% (118) |
| 2022-23 | 384 | 23.5 | 16.3:1 | 32% (121) |
| 2020-21 | 436 | 25 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 426 | 23.8 | 17.9:1 | 36% (153) |
| 2015-16 | 399 | 24 | 16.6:1 | 41% (164) |
| 2010-11 | 336 | 22 | 15.3:1 | 38% (128) |
| 2000-01 | 336 | 22 | 15.3:1 | 13% (43) |
| 1990-91 | 401 | 21 | 19.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Colonial Hills Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (426 to 371); teachers down 2% (23.8 to 23.3).
About Colonial Hills Elementary School
Colonial Hills Elementary School is an elementary school with a street address in Worthington, Ohio. It enrolled 371 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
The 19 schools of Worthington City, including Colonial Hills Elementary School, enroll 10,874 students.
At 63%, White students outnumber all other groups at Colonial Hills Elementary School combined. Smaller groups are 24% Black, 6% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. By the diversity index, Colonial Hills Elementary School comes in at 54%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 15.9:1, with 23.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in Ohio is 17.9:1, higher than at this school. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 35% of enrollment.
allk12 grades Colonial Hills Elementary School a B-. The grade compares the school only with Ohio public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in Ohio with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 75.6%. Colonial Hills Elementary School scores 71.3%.
Franklin County has about 1,333,048 residents, and median household income is about $75,176, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 402 public schools in Franklin County, with a combined enrollment of about 195,359.
Kilbourne Middle School is the public school closest to Colonial Hills Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Colonial Hills Elementary School is 5th of 5 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Colonial Hills Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
The number of students declined from 436 to 371 over 4 years. Students per teacher fell from 17.4 in 2020-21 to 15.9 in 2024-25.
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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 Worthington City
- Thomas Worthington High SchoolHigh · 1,712 students
- Worthington Kilbourne High SchoolHigh · 1,623 students
- Worthingway Middle SchoolMiddle · 640 students
- Mccord Middle SchoolMiddle · 636 students
- Worthington Estates Elementary SchoolElementary · 555 students
- Perry Middle SchoolMiddle · 528 students
Other schools in Worthington
- Ohio Connections Academy IncCombined · 5,191 students
- Thomas Worthington High SchoolHigh · 1,712 students
- Worthingway Middle SchoolMiddle · 640 students
- Worthington Estates Elementary SchoolElementary · 555 students
- Perry Middle SchoolMiddle · 528 students
- Evening Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 490 students
Other Colonial Hills Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Colonial Hills Elementary. Colonial Hills Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Colonial Hills Elementary SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 565 students
Nearby schools
- Kilbourne Middle School0.6 mi · 464
- Ohio State School for the Blind0.9 mi · 114
- Evening Street Elementary School1.0 mi · 490
- Salem Elementary School1.0 mi · 342
- Thomas Worthington High School1.0 mi · 1,712
- Wilson Hill Elementary School1.1 mi · 448
Frequently asked questions
About Colonial Hills Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Colonial Hills Elementary School?
Colonial Hills Elementary School enrolls approximately 371 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Colonial Hills Elementary School serve?
Colonial Hills Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Colonial Hills Elementary School?
Approximately 15.9:1 students per teacher at Colonial Hills Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Colonial Hills Elementary School?
Student demographics at Colonial Hills Elementary School are roughly 63% White, 6% Hispanic, 24% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Colonial Hills Elementary School?
Colonial Hills Elementary School is overseen by Worthington City in Franklin County.
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