Columbus Noor Academy

Columbus Noor Academy is an one-room-style elementary campus in Columbus, Ohio, run under Columbus Noor Academy. The school educates 37 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Columbus Noor Academy sits 91% leaner than that benchmark.

Columbus Noor Academy is a school of Columbus Noor Academy, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Columbus Noor Academy records that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 3% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 1 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 37.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.9:1, putting Columbus Noor Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 92% of students at Columbus Noor Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Franklin County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Franklin County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,176 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Franklin County runs 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), of which Columbus Noor Academy is one.

Eagle Charter Schools of Ohio dba the Shepard School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. Columbus Noor Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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