Fouse Elementary School

Fouse Elementary School is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in Westerville, Ohio, overseen by Westerville City, works with 459 students in grades K through 5.

Fouse Elementary School is one of 24 schools operated by Westerville City, a district that caters to 14,589 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fouse Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 18% Hispanic, 13% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Delaware County runs at roughly 20%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Fouse Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 76.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 78.9%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Delaware County) shows that median household income runs about $133,540, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Fouse Elementary School is one of 59 public schools in Delaware County (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students).

Genoa Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 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), Fouse Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 78.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 29%: 643 students in 2018 compared to 459 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 9% to 3% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Fouse Elementary School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.