David Smith Elementary School

Located at 355 N Liberty St, in Delaware, Ohio, David Smith Elementary School is a mid-sized K-5 school that serves 376 students (grades K through 5), run under Delaware City.

David Smith Elementary School is one of 7 schools operated by Delaware City, a district that caters to 5,650 students overall.

On demographics, David Smith Elementary School shows that nearly all students (83%) are White; the rest consists of 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black. Compared to Delaware County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Delaware County runs at roughly 20%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, David Smith Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.9%, the actual is 70.0%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Delaware County shows the typical household earns roughly $133,540 per year, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. David Smith Elementary School is one of 59 public schools in Delaware County (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students).

Rutherford B Hayes High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), David Smith Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 70.6%.

David Smith Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at David Smith Elementary School has ticked down 20%, going from 472 students in 2018 to 376 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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