Duxberry Park Alternative Elementary School

Duxberry Park Alternative Elementary School is a primary school of small scale in Columbus, Ohio, operated by Columbus City Schools District, educateing 183 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 55% below the state mean of about 404.

Columbus City Schools District comprises 115 schools with combined enrollment of 46,249 students; Duxberry Park Alternative Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Duxberry Park Alternative Elementary School records that 73% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest comes out to 13% multiracial, 9% White, 3% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Franklin County) logs that median household income runs about $75,176, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Duxberry Park Alternative Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

North Columbus Preparatory Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Duxberry Park Alternative Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 30%: 261 students in 2018 compared to 183 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 84% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Duxberry Park Alternative Elementary School typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.