Freedom Trail Elementary

Freedom Trail Elementary is a primary school of moderately sized scale in Lewis, Ohio, one of the schools within Olentangy Local, works with 605 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Ohio's public schools average about 404 students each, so Freedom Trail Elementary sits 50% above that benchmark.

Olentangy Local comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 24,133 students; Freedom Trail Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Freedom Trail Elementary logs that 59% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 19% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Delaware County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Freedom Trail Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 82.8%, the actual is 82.4%, a residual of -0.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Delaware County put median household income runs about $133,540, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Delaware County's 59 public schools (combined enrollment of about 44,100 students), Freedom Trail Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Orange High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Freedom Trail Elementary at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 83.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 3%: 621 students in 2018 compared to 605 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 77% to 59%. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

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